I have begun training toward my MCSE. In the process, I have configured my local network as such:
1. My Internet connection comes in through my cable provider. The cable modem gets its IP address dynamically, and provides Internet to my Trendnet router.
2. On the Trendnet router I have DHCP turned OFF. I set the internal IP address of the router to 192.168.0.145
3. I configured my newly installed Windows 2003 Server as a DHCP server, gave it an IP configuration as follows:
IP Address 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.0.145
Preferred DNS: 192.168.0.145
Range of addresses: 192.168.0.10 – 192.168.0.254
4. After restarting the relative hardware for old time’s sake (cable modem, router, server, clients), I have the following symptoms:
A) My server can get to the Internet and can ping any address inside my network.
B) My client machines are NOT getting dynamically assigned IP addresses from the new server
C) Manually configured IP addresses for clients allow them to get access to the Internet
D) Clients canNOT ping the server, even after manual IP address configuration.
E) None of these client machines is a member of my new domain (contoso.com, as instructed by Microsoft’s training material). But in my experience, a DHCP server will still give out IP addresses to a machine that requests one, even if the machine is not a domain member.
5. The new server is Authorized as a DHCP server on the new domain, I have a green light.
6. Even though I now have nothing giving out IP addresses, I have manually configured every device (like 4 machines and a printer) and it all works. This doesn’t solve my problem, though, b/c client machines cannot see the server, and therefore I can’t join anyone to the domain. Argh!
7. Also, setting up DNS has me thoroughly confused, could this be part of the problem?