Win2000 as a LAN router 1

[mawdryn]

Hi,

I have a win2000 server with two nic's and one side has desktop clients and adsl router while the other side has the laptops. I've made this arrangement due to system positioning and cabling issues.

The problem I am experiencing is that even though I has set up routing and remote access on the server, the laptop side is unable to browse to network shares, etc. It can ping all systems on the desktop/adsl side, by ip and by name and can even browse the internet (although painfully slow with timeouts) can anyone please point me to a decent howto to set up rras correctly or perhaps give me some tips. Thanks.

 

[penauroth]

Are the latops unable to browse the network shares on the SBS or desktop systems.

Make sure the SBS NIC on the Laptop side is setup for File and Print Sharing.

Paul

Work on Windows, play on Linux.

 

[mawdryn]

Hi,

I seem to have fixed that issue by deactivating rras and reconfiguring it. Although I'm still left with a annoying problem of web traffic being extremely slow with timeouts.

I've configured NAT in RRAS and DNS resolves and pinging overseas sites gives me a about 150-200ms return so that's not bad, however open up IE and "world wide wait" is immediately evident. Most pages give a DNS error after ages. Can anyone please help.

 

[penauroth]

Setup forwarders on your DNS servers. This will make resolving names much faster for Internet access.

From faq96-3017

This feature forwards DNS requests to external servers. If a DNS server cannot find a resource record in its zones, it can send the request to another DNS server for additional attempts at resolution. A common scenario might be to configure forwarders to your ISP's DNS servers.
A DNS server that is setup as a DNS forwarder can handle both internal & external queries.


Paul

Work on Windows, play on Linux.

 

[mawdryn]

Hi,

Thanks for the input, but I already have a DNS server set up with forwarders and forward/reverse lookups. I'm going to reinstall windows on this laptop as I suspect the kerio firewall may have messed up my system. I uninstalled it a few weeks ago and have had similar problems before with zonealarm. I'll post back later.

 

[mawdryn]

Hi,

I reformatted the laptop.. no change.

I've confirmed that DNS is ok as the laptops are DHCP and they are automatically registered in the DNS. Other machines on the 192.168.0 subnet can ping and connect through netbios shares, and the laptop on the 192.168.1 subnet can do the same with the other systems, it's just that the laptop cannot browse the internet without timing out. Pings are good, we're on a 100mb lan with 1.5mb adsl.

I believe the laptop is having an issue with the win2k/router box as it is effectively dual natting.

 

[ricpinto]

Hopefully somebody can solve your problem because it's interesting, but if you hit the wall and wanted a way out then you can purchase a small switch (4 ports) to act as a bridge, they are cheap nowadays. You can put them (Desktops/Server/Laptops) in a single network (192.168.0).

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Small Switch(4ports) --------- Switch- Laptops
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Server