[nzlug] Server B***s-up

[Steve Holdoway]

You'll probably find that the core of the problem is that the M$ server is in the .local domain. Mickey and his mates do really strange things when in this domain. If you can move it - your existing localdomain should be ok - then things should improve.

Steve

On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:39:43 +1200
Michael Adams <linux_mike at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> 
> We run a small C Class network on 192.168.0.X in an educational
> environment at work (my first attempt). It was handled by an IPCop box
> just fine. IPCop is at ...0.1, Printer 1 at ...0.25, Printer 2
> at...0.50. IPCop dishes out other adresses from ...0.60 to ...0.250. Ran
> sweet.
> 
> Now we have a new IBM Server running Windows Server 2008 going in at
> ...0.8 with thin clients and everything is bogging down on the internet
> for pre-existing boxes (non-thin clients) and with the IPCop box itself.
> I don't know much about this stuff. The IPCop box is still dishing out
> the IP addresses but I can't log into it at
> https://ipcop.localdomain:445 like i could before. I still can on
> https://192.168.0.1:445 but it is as intermittent as hell.
> 
> This new server has been set up on "newsvr.local" as its
> hostname.domainname. Are the two domains conflicting or do i look
> elsewhere for the mix-up?
> 
> Ping works fine from a thin client windows command prompt to 192.168.0.1
> (which is effectively from the new server to IPCop, i think, as
> opposed to being from the client box itself). Didn't think to ping
> ipcop.localdomain, neither did i try from a normal box to any other. I
> left there at six tonight and i am not happy. We've not been able to
> run a course since Wednesday. No, i didn't do the install. I did have
> one small consolation, in that the thin clients themselves are HP
> t5135's running linux.
> 
> -- 
> Michael
> 
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> 
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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>