• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Windows 2000 and XP Networking Issues

Dahak

Dahak

Diamond Member
Good Day,

I'll try to keep this short and to the point

I have a Windows 2000 Domain network where I have about 10 users login into the domain. Planning on moving over to Windows XP Pro from Win98, (mostly for stabiliy reasons). I have moved over 2 computer over to WinXP already and I'm running into a few issues.

1) My 2 Windows XP machine take along time to logn onto the domain, mostly at the "Applying User and Personal Settings" dialogs. Im not using any sort of profiles or settings with in the domain at the moment.

2) I cannot access my 2 WinXP machines, from my win98 machine, it come up with the following error "\\ComputerName is not accessable. The logon server cannot be found"

3) When i try to access either WinXp machine from the other Xp machine i get and error saying that i dont have access to it (using a domain admin level account) and give the following error in the same box "This servers clock is not synchronized with the Primary domain controllers clock"

Thank for any hints or suggestions

Dahak

 
Dahak, you need to first make sure that all of your XP Pro machines have joined the Domain. This is something you do with NT 4.0/2000/XP machines that you don't do with 95/98/ME machines.
 
Actually, they (my xp machines) have joined the domain, forgot to mention it in the post. As well as all machine get a ip from a dhcp server on a router.
 
How does your server get it's IP?. If it gets it's IP by way of DHCP, asign it a static IP in the DHCP range and then change the Primary DNS settings in the clients to that setting.
 
If your computers are getting their IP's assigned from a router, then they are not going to have entries in DNS. You will need to either add the records manually (bad decision), modify host file on each computer (worse choice) or...

Turn off DHCP on the router. Set up DHCP on the server. Have your clients obtain their IP from there and they will automatically create records in DNS so the other computers will be able to find them. It's also not a bad Idea to go ahead and set up WINS. Actually, I guess you will have to since you still have Win 9x machines...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top