Help me understand

Let me preface this by saying I am not a network person at all. I'm a dba who dabbles in everything else IT related because the budget is tight and I'm all there is. I know just about enough to be dangerous which is why we generally contract network stuff out to a local outfit.

Anyway, my office has a fairly small network. We're having issues with connection to the domain. Sometimes we can logon, other times we can't and then we get the message that the domain could not be found. Connection issues continue once we do logon with slow access to data, delayed write failures and intermittent loss of connection to the domain. My first thought was that our switch was going bad (it's getting old and I expected it to die before now) but our internet connection is lightening fast. Shouldn't a bad switch also affect the internet connection?

Our guys will be here later today to check things out but I'm curious as to where the problem lies - hardware or domain settings?

 

Hi!

Sounds like a DNS issue

Can You ping all the Computers on your network using IP address's
and using their names?

If IP works and Names dont it could be a DNS resolution error

Have you checked the logs on you Domain Controller.

thelaptopguru