Network issue...

Hi.....

i have 2 computers connected in network.. i had given automatic ip for these two systems.. and these two systems are connected with internet.. i configured AD in Server(2003) machine. i can't able to ping by name from each other. but i can ping by IP from each other. router is configured to get IP automatically. i need answer for the following question:

what can i do to ping from IP as well as by name of machine?
is it needed to configure DHCP in server machime?

Configuration:

one machine is windows 2003 server installed.
another one is windows Xp installed.

 

Re: Network issue... Need more info

Hello,
There's not enough info in your question to give a comprehensive answer.

Does your server act as the internet gateway?
Is your server set up as the DNS?
If your server is not the internet gateway, is the gateway router, server, and XP machine all part of the same domain?

Would you be willing to solve this with a hosts file on the XP machine and the server?

For info on Hosts file format see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

Best regards, Hanon

 

Thanks for your reply...Hanon..

Actually These two systems are connected with unmanaged switch and configured IP to get automatically... In server i configured AD but didn't configure DNS.. In router, the service provider configured DHCP is ON...

I think this server is not act as a internet gateway.....

and DNS role installed in this server but not configured....

Regards,
kmohamedfaizal

 

Hello,
This might be solved by enabling netbios in each host's network configuration.

Another quick solution would be to add a hosts file to each machine to associate a host name with an IP address, however this would quickly be broken if the DHCP server assigned a different address to a particular node.

Here is a good tutorial on DNS:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial52.html

The DHCP server of your gateway router is probably not a LAN DNS server or resolver, so the better solution would be to configure the server to provide DNS and DHCP. Turn the DHCP server off in the gateway router "ISP's router" if it isn't specifically required.
Note that there can be conflicts when multiple DHCP servers "uncoordinated" exist on the same LAN, so set the range of addresses differently for each DHCP server so there's no overlap.

Good luck.

Cheers, Hanon