When use dial-up-networking connection, I loose my local networking.

[truewebster]

Any suggestions?
I have several users using W98 and W2k, and they are all experiencing the same problem. When they use a Dial-up-networking connection to a remote network, they loose all networking on their LAN. They loose the ability to print to thier local network printers, and they can not access any local servers. The remote network they connect to is using DHCP to send them an IP address, gateway, and DNS server. They operate fine on the remote system, but again they loose all local networking. Once they disconnect from the remote network, their local networking is restored.

It has been suggested to me, that configuring static ip routes for my local network may do the trick?
Does this sound right?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[hexn]

No, that doesnt quite sound right. When I dial-up from a windows machine, my LAN stuff still works, but anything that requires a gateway will be routed out the dial-up. So if your printers are on a different LAN, then they will be unreachable. And yes, the only way to fix that is with static routes.

 

[truewebster]

I appreciate the response. I am going to add static IP routes for my local subnets, including printers and servers. But I am having a little trouble with the route command syntax. I am trying the following syntax to add my network printer:
route ADD 10.150.64.212 MASK 255.255.252.0 10.150.64.1

and I get the following error:
The route addition failed: The specified mask parameter is invalid. (Destination & Mask) != Destination.

I'm not well versed in adding static routes.

Any tips?

 

[ZZtops]

route add syntax is as follows
1.2.3.0 (the ip of the network you want to reach)
mask 255.255.255.0 (or what ever mask is suitable based on your network
2.3.4.5 (the ip of the router that is able to connect to network 1.2.3)

route add 1.2.3.0 mask 255.255.255.0 2.3.4.5 {-p for permanent)

So your computers ip is say 2.3.4.1 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 (I know its class one but its just an example)
There is a router on your network 2.3.4.5.

 

[ZZtops]

But I don't know if that will work - I too see my internet connection to the cable modem go dead while I'm dialed out to another network. Not sure why that is binding order maybe?

 

[truewebster]

Thank you inikis and ZZtops very much. I got the static routes added successfuly and it works well. I now have customers who are able to dial in using DUN, and are able to access the remote network, and at the same time have access to their local network, including printers and servers.

You guys rock!