Help with understanding NT Subneting

[joshferraro]

I have two subnets, seperated by a T1 and two cisco routers, one on each subnet. In each subnets I have about 20 or so Windows 95 machines that are peer to peer networked, within each subnet. I recently bought a NT server and set it up as the PDC in one of the subnets. I have not been able to log in to the domain from the other subnet. The 95 machines do not find the domain. Any help on this will be very much appreciated. I want to be able to share files and drive mappings, etc from one to the other.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Joshua

 

[DougP]

Now when you have both Peer-to-peer and Domains and routers so you have one whale of a situation.<br>
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I tout this alot in these cases.<br>
There is a book called 'Networking Essentials' by Microsoft Press <br>
It has everything you would ever want to know about the hardware side in Networking, Routers how and why they work.<br>
etc etc etc it's 846 pages<br>
I have one but not with me so I don't know the ISBN #<br>
But you can get it at amazon i'm sure<br>
I got mine from taking the Microsoft certificaion class.<br>
If you really want to understand this, get that book.<br>
there are numerous situations why your's, or mine or someones else's network will not see something or not work.<br>
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this book will guide you.<br>
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<p> DougP<br><a href=mailto: dposton@universal1.com> dposton@universal1.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[joshferraro]

Actually I already have that book. It dosen't address my specific problem, that I could see.

 

[dxd]

to be honest, your best bet is to set up a BDC in the other subnet. For among other things a backup.<br>
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To get around 95's problems logging into a routed or subnetted network can be as easy as creating an LMHOST file on each client identifying the IP address of the domain controller...i.e 192.168.0.1 myserver #pre #dom:mydomain<br>
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Win 95 does have some QFE / updates that are supposed to address this problem, if you get a chance check on the MS KB.<br>

 

[billtiv]

Have you set up a route between the two subnets? Can one subnet see the other? If you can ping the IP addresses from one subnet to the other, then WINS is needed. If you can ping, you can connect the machines to eachother using mapped drives, but instead of mapping with netbios names, you can use IP addresses. If you set up WINS, you can connect with netbios names.

 

[joshferraro]

I fixed the problem. I used a LMHOST file to point to the Server as the PDC of my domain. It works smoothly in Win 98, but Win 95 needed a patch to work. I decided to use LMHOST instead of WINS for two reasons. LMHOST is faster, and you need a WINS server in each subnet of your domain in order for it to work.<br>
Thanks everyone for the help.