Connecting one pc to two networks HELP!

[donny2001]

Hello,

I am new to this forum and was wondering if someone could help me out. I recently graduated from college and am trying to bring back some "Dead Brain Cells".

Here is my situation:

The good

Two weeks ago the store I work for went live with our new Point of Sale System Successfully!! I couldnt sleep the night before go live cause I was soooo excited for the tear down and setup.

We have a 5 workstations for our point of sale connected to 2 servers throgh a 16 port LinkSys Hub. 1 of those workstations is from our DSL netowork (call him Computer A)

No problems here.

The Bad.

Computer A was part of our 4 user DSL network. The Router / Switch is a Netgear FVS318 (Firewall, Router Switch).

I would like to make Computer A and only computer A communicate to the outside world without changing its workgroup name and setting up the DHCP all the time, plus be on the Point of Sale network.

Steps I have done so far:

I have made a cable (Non crossover), connecting both networks together.

The Computer A was a member of a workgroup called "Workgroup" (Now its under the POS workgroup).

IP address was obtained automatically along with an automatic DNS BEFORE it was connected to the pos network. Now it has a static address of 192.168.1.106, no DNS, etc.


Would it be easier to run a cable connecting the two networks together, or am I better off adding a 2nd network card to Computer A, and setting up specific tcp/ip settings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I am sorry for the long post, but I wanted to provide as much info as possible.

Thank you,

Since

 

[JackMDS]

Welcome to the Network Forum.

Do you have a Real server, or a Peer to peer Network?

There are few options to do it.

The simplest is to put two NICs in computer A. Plug one NIC into the Network and configure it to work and share with the Network.

Use the second NIC to connect to the Router?s DHCP and get to the Internet.

:sun:

 

[donny2001]

To answer your question, it is a true server. Cause the POSs at end of day have to send their information to it everynight. I did find out some additional information while "playing" though.

The server has a default gateway of 192.168.1.1 which I am suspecting to be the 16 ort Linksys hub, no no DNS.

On computer A when I enter in the router's IP (192.168.0.1) in the default gateway column and change the metric to 2, I can ping the router but no internet. I then tried to use the Dsl's DNS and nothing worked.

Im off today from work so I dont have to worry about it at least for another day, but you did mention that there were 2 options, and you only explained the one to me. What would be the other option, guessing that it is harder than installing a 2nd NIC, but might be easier than running another 100 feet of cable everywhere. Anything right now is worth a shot.

Thanks again!