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by cluby

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We have aquire another windows 2000 server for our network. I change the tcp/ip configuration to mirror the other server. It can be seen on the network by the other pcs and server, but only the server can access its shared drive. What did I not do or do wrong? Please help!

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by jb007

Firstly does it have a different IP Address?.

I'm not sure from the wording in your question.

Secondly is it a member of the domain?

Thirdly is file and printer sharing enabled for the lan connection?

regards,

jb007

by cluby

Answer to your questions:
1. It has a different IP Address
2. Not it will not let me be a member of the domain, it says it can't find it. It will onl let be a member of the workgroup.
3. I believe sharing it enabled I will double check.

by sergey kovzik

hey! why do you mirror TCP/IP configuration? If you use same IP-address for two servers same time, one of them will be invisible... And this is in good case. In worse case you can get even other problems like loosing data. Change IP-address of second server and it should become visible. I hope their names are different? :) And I assume you've set up right permissions to access directories. You need to check rights for local access and for shared access to be sure all ok. If you have domain structure (not a workgroup) then you might think about using one of them as PDC and second as BDC...

by cluby

The second server has a different ip address then the first server. Is it possible to the make the second server a BDC without reinstalling anything. Currently this server runs the backup.

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