conceptumator
Technical User
If anyone could help me out, I would be IMMENSELY grateful!
I'm not a networking expert by any means, know just enough to be fairly dangerous, but I take care of the network for our church and need some help. Our old server finally gave up the ghost and I got another to replace it (refurbished). The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 if that matters. I used Dell's Open Manage software to configure everything and have the OS (Server 2000) installed and running. I have gone into Active Directory and set back up the users and passwords we had before the crash. The network consists of about 20 machines on a domain (metrococ), most with XP Pro, a couplee with Win7 and a few with Win2K. My problem right now is I can see the other computers in the network from the server, but I can't authenticate to the domain to get logged into the other computers. They just tell me the domain is either not available or I don't have authority to access it. Since I set the new machine up as a PDC, is there something I need to do to the workstations to get them to recognize the new server? Everything is named the same as before and has the same IP address, etc. I can get signed into the machines without authentication and see the internet, but still can't see the server.
Thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, etc.? All are welcome. I think there is probably some little bitty thing I don't know to do that is gumming up the entire works, but I just can find it.
Thanks to anyone who can help - I am getting desperate!
I'm not a networking expert by any means, know just enough to be fairly dangerous, but I take care of the network for our church and need some help. Our old server finally gave up the ghost and I got another to replace it (refurbished). The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 if that matters. I used Dell's Open Manage software to configure everything and have the OS (Server 2000) installed and running. I have gone into Active Directory and set back up the users and passwords we had before the crash. The network consists of about 20 machines on a domain (metrococ), most with XP Pro, a couplee with Win7 and a few with Win2K. My problem right now is I can see the other computers in the network from the server, but I can't authenticate to the domain to get logged into the other computers. They just tell me the domain is either not available or I don't have authority to access it. Since I set the new machine up as a PDC, is there something I need to do to the workstations to get them to recognize the new server? Everything is named the same as before and has the same IP address, etc. I can get signed into the machines without authentication and see the internet, but still can't see the server.
Thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, etc.? All are welcome. I think there is probably some little bitty thing I don't know to do that is gumming up the entire works, but I just can find it.
Thanks to anyone who can help - I am getting desperate!
