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Why can't I surf?

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by ereis

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I have a home network operating from a DSL line into a Linksys router. The router connects to the DSL service through PPoE. The router then runs into a Intel 4-port switch. I have two boxes, one runs Windows NT 4.0 server with service pack 6a and one with windows NT 4.0 workstation with service pack 6. The server is running DHCP, DNS and WINS. The workstation logs into the domain with no problems (obtains and IP adress, browses the network, is assigned a gateway, etc.) I can surf the web from my server but not from the workstation. I think I didn't completely setup the DNS service, because I wasn't sure of the zones or other areas. Help.

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by jomo123

Hey give this a try, make sure your settings in network include TCP/IP. Also, check out your Wins settings too. Look it up on Microsoft's Technet website too.

by ereis

The only protocols I am running are TCP/IP and NetBEUI. I have checked the settings for TCP/IP and it seems to be working properly. I can ping the router and the server. What should I check on in the WINS settings?

by ipjunkie

Your Workstation needs the DNS addresses from your ISP. You can either add those in manually, or it should get them from the Router/Gateway, if it gets it's address from the Router's DHCP server.

Open a CMD window on your NT Server and type:

IPCONFIG /ALL

It will show you the DNS addresses from your ISP. You can now set these up properly on the server and then the workstation should be assigned these through DHCP.

However..., the router you are using may be designed to act as a DHCP server... So there MAY be some kind of conflict going on also. Just a warning, but I think you will be fine if you do what I suggested.

by ipjunkie

You may have to add the DNS addreses manually to the workstation if it doesn't pull them from the DHCP server. Just set up the DNS ip addresses on the workstation that you got from the server's IPCONFIG info.

by ipjunkie

Also, if you have WINS setup properly, you don't need to run NetBEUI. Conversly, if you are running NetBEUI, you don't need WINS. :)

by ereis

I took the workstation off of DHCP and gave it the same static settings as it would have revceived from the DHCP server. It surfed fine. When I put it back on DHCP from the NT server it will not surf. I will talk to the router as well as the server.

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