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by rtfentem

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Hello everyone,
I am new to networking and servers. I have this problem.

The server 2003 was infected with a worm/virus/trojon?? to the point that it would not boot up...Lots of things was tried to restore the server, but the end result was that the server had to have the OS reloaded.

Connected to this server at the time of the failure was 4 PCs running XP PRO, connected to the domain PMUSTANGGA. I have tried to take one PC back to workstation and it has taken me 2 days to restore all of the user's profile and settings. I cannot do this to the remaining 3 PCs, as they cannot be down for that length of time...each pc contains many applications and specialized software and need to be up ASAP.

What I need is to be able to connect each of the PCs to the server to be able to get to the SQL server 2000 that is there.

I can ping each of the PCs from the server, but I cannot ping the server from any of the PCs.

The network is setup as follows:

All PCs and the server connect to a 10-100 switch and the switch connects to a linksys router which inturn is connected to the netopia modem...DSL through Bellsouth (ISP)

Can someone help me with this problem...I am not sure that the server is correctly configured and will answer your questions as best as I can.

Rhonda

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by jonxdoe

Are you trying to ping the name or address of the server?
Do you have any DNS services on the 2000 server?
Do the PC's have rights to the server?

by rtfentem

Hello jonxdoe,
pinging the IP of the server 2003
I think there are DNS services running, but I am not sure...were do I go to find out?

Under dnsmgmt-[DNS\1PMUSTANGGA\Forward Lookup zones there are 5 zones? all showing active.

How do I find out if PCs have rights to server?

All 4 were part of domain PMUSTANGGA before the crash/reload of the server....One I took back to a workstation (it took about 2-3 days to recover from that mess) and the other 3 are still listed as part of the domain

by calving12

I have a 2003 server connected through a 16 port 10/100 (working) switch to a 2Wire 3800HGV-B Gateway. The server is configured with Active Dir., DNS, RRAS, DO-Cntrlr,and Print Server. It doesn't matter the connection, via the 16 port switch or 4 port on the gateway, the clients can't see the server to join the domain. The client report "unable to find service record for domain". NSlookup from the server show SRV record exist in DNS, but NSlookup from client, can't find the DNS for the local namespace.
Were you successful is resolving your problem?,

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