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Clients do not display on W2000 LAN

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by jmcculley 1 view

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My office has a small LAN with W2000 Server running AD and MS Exchange, a 2nd W2000 with WWW, a 3rd W2000 with data, and 10 W2000 Professional clients. When looking at Network Places, not all clients display. Sometimes they display after AD server reboots, sometimes not. I've checked documentation regarding TCP/IP config and cannot find anything that discusses this that applies to our situation. Problem occurs when we want to map a drive to our WWW server and cannot find it in Network Placeswithout doing the search first. Also, clients still have occasion to share files between each other. Question: How do I make all clients show up in Network Places ALL the time?
More info: Our AD server is running DNS but we use a local ISP for our real DNS. The DNS order is ISP first, then ours. I've tried switching DNS order on my PC and appended DNS suffix and made sure to check "Register this connection's addresses in DNS". At first, it seemed to work after I rebooted. My PC appeared for a while. Yet, my PC seemed to disappear later. So, when navigating through Entire Network, MS Windows Network, and click on our domain, only 2 servers out of 3 appear and no clients appear. I feel like the installer failed to configure AD correctly, but I cannot find the source of the problem. Initially, we had to switch the memory out and that seemed to solve the problem, but it is still happening.

Anybody dealt with this before??

Thanks.

Jerry McCulley

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by jdestars

What Kind of network protocol is defined on station? TPCP /IP
Static or dynamic address ?
Did you configure on your server the DHCP?

by jmcculley

All computers are Windows 2000. TCP/IP is configured with both static and dynamic. But it doesn't matter whether dynamic or static - both types of clients have the same problem.
Also Windows File and Printer sharing as well as client for MicrosoftNetworks are installed.
AD server is running DHCP and we are moving some pc's of static onto dynamic addresses.

Dan Defastano says objects must be published to Active Directory and then NetBios can be disabled if nothing else on LAN uses NetBios. But then, printers, shares, all resources must be published in AD. This must be it.

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