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by rmcswss

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I'd like to know if there is an easy way to change the domain
workgroup for W2K Advanced Server. The W2K machine is not serving as a
server in the truest sense as it is not controlling files or print
functions. It is just acting as a Mail Server.The machine does have two
nic cards, one looking at a Speed Touch Home Alcatel modem for static ip
configuration with BellSouth, and the other looking at the LAN. The LAN
card is pulling the email from BellSouth through a Cayman router. The
problem is once I boot the W2K machine up, I have to take it down
everytime someone in the company needs to surf the internet through the
LAN. This is not only time consuming but email is down for that period
of time also. I have thought about configuring another W2K Advanced
Server machine with a different workgroup name thinking this may solve
the problem, but would rather do it an easier way if possible. Thank
you.

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by mrjay67

im al ittle confused at your configuration. Do you have 2 internet connections from Bell South? At any rate I dont see why you cant use your router for everything. I dont see it being an issue with the workgroup. In theory you should be able to hook a bell south connection to the WAN port on the router and then hook the rest of the computers up to the LAN side. I think that would simplify it quite a bit.

If you have to keep the connections the way they are then maybe you just need to setthe gateway to the proper NIC on the sever. You should be able to set up a private DHCP scope either with your server or perhaps with the cayman router(basicly setup NAT). You could also set all this manually on each PC but if there are quite a few then DHCP is much easier.

I may be missing something but it seems like you just need to simplify your internet/LAN connections. Either way you set it up I think the issue here is to make sure the client PCs are using the correct gateway. If there are 2 Internet connections comming through, point the client gateways to the NIC address it's using. Also make sure DNS is set to use the appropriate address(since you dont mention having DNS yourself it will need to pint to bell south's servers).

Just my initial thoughts. If im off track on your setup please comment back and i'll try and help.

Jason

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