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I have 2 servers one serverthe name is mailserver is used as mailserver,Internet connection sharing as well as the downlink from the sattlite. i have a a sattlite dowlink card on the the mailserver and 2 other netwrk cards which one netwrk card is used for the modem to the internet that card is assighned an public ip and the other card is assighned a prvate ip on which ics is enabled.i have 2 types of clients windoes xp and win98 and other serveer is runing oin windows 2000 active derictoy which all the 6 windoes xp clients are athenthicated by the other server the prblem is that i use tcpip as the main protocol and the ip is dhcp enables on on all the pcs it gets the ip from the mailserver. but the problem is that i cant se any comuter inthe netwrk neighbourhood until i go to find computer then only i can get the computer which i want. and as i tryed enabling wins it picks up the ip of the sattllite card which is givend by the sattlite service providor . and the windoes xp clients find it very slow to browse through the network it takes roughly 5 mints to go to a computer . too many broadcast storms are created. Kindly assit me in solving this problem

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by mshavrov

There are several things to be considered:

1. Physical / Datalink layer. Do you use switch or hub? If you use switch, configure each port to 100/Full Duplex. Do same thing with PCs. Sure, if you have some 10Mbps devices (like printer or another legacy device), detect, which port is it connected and configure that port on switch to be 10 Mbit. This allow you to exclude this part of network from troubleshooting.

2. You mentioned you enabled WINS. But there are 2 steps involved in this.

A. You should enable WINS SERVER on one of your server. And this should be enabled on LAN interface, not Satelite.
B. You should configure WINS CLIENT on each PC. Go to TCP/IP settings and enter IP address of your WINS Server.

Use any sniffer software (I believe, you may download some software for evaluation period) and look what happening in your network before you enable WINS and after.

3. Check your servers configuration. You should have Microsoft Networking Client, WINS, File Sharing, etc only on Inside LAN interfaces. It's really bad idea to enable anything except TCP/IP on Internet or Sattelite interfaces.

Good luck. If you have more questions, you may just write me.

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