Hi Guys.
I am new to some of this stuff so I hope I can give you enough relevant information and make it as painless as possible. I've just helped an office install an ADSL Router and seem to have started a daisy chain of problems. Currently I have stopped the DHCP service from starting on the server and have issued static IP addresses to all workstations. The server is 192.168.68.1 and all the workstations are in that same IP range. The router is 192.168.68.85
I have added the Router IP addresses to DNS and gateway on each Workstation and the internet works perfectly. After first issuing IP addresses to the workstations I had a few problems for the first few boots as they would not find a Domain Controller, but that seems to have fixed itself. The problem I'm confronting now is printing from Workstations (Except for those which have the printers installed locally). The 2 printers are shared through the server but connected to two of the workstations. If I add the printers on each workstation to print diretly to the workstation with which they are connected, this works fine but means that PC has to be logged on, where as when shared through the server, the PC has to be on but not logged in. Now for the tricky part... if I restart the server, or simply mess around with stopping and starting a service or basically anything that stops and starts networking then all the printing will work, but only for a short while. Sometimes half an hour, sometimes 2 hours but that's about it. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be able to fix this problem??? Thanks guys, I look forward to hearing from you soon.
I am new to some of this stuff so I hope I can give you enough relevant information and make it as painless as possible. I've just helped an office install an ADSL Router and seem to have started a daisy chain of problems. Currently I have stopped the DHCP service from starting on the server and have issued static IP addresses to all workstations. The server is 192.168.68.1 and all the workstations are in that same IP range. The router is 192.168.68.85
I have added the Router IP addresses to DNS and gateway on each Workstation and the internet works perfectly. After first issuing IP addresses to the workstations I had a few problems for the first few boots as they would not find a Domain Controller, but that seems to have fixed itself. The problem I'm confronting now is printing from Workstations (Except for those which have the printers installed locally). The 2 printers are shared through the server but connected to two of the workstations. If I add the printers on each workstation to print diretly to the workstation with which they are connected, this works fine but means that PC has to be logged on, where as when shared through the server, the PC has to be on but not logged in. Now for the tricky part... if I restart the server, or simply mess around with stopping and starting a service or basically anything that stops and starts networking then all the printing will work, but only for a short while. Sometimes half an hour, sometimes 2 hours but that's about it. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be able to fix this problem??? Thanks guys, I look forward to hearing from you soon.
