One of our contract people has a laptop that he uses here at the office, and at home and another office. He is currently running XP Pro and the network he's attaching to is MS Server 2000. I recently migrated from an NT 4 server to 2000 (we have other 2000 servers as well) plus NT 4's.
The problem I'm having is connection at our office, but only pertaining to the Internet. All offices use DSL and while he can connect to our office, he cannot use the internet here (internet connectivity at all other offices works just fine). When I ran ipconfig on his machine it shows all the DNS servers he connects to except ours. It will not register our DNS server (which is set to automatically get an addres from the DHCP server) altho he can connect to the network and utilize all network drives and services except the Internet. The default gateway registers correctly. His computer name does not appear on the dhcp server. I've had this problem on other notebooks and since their machines don't connect to other offices, I've had to assign static IPs. I also tried assigning him a static IP address and that didn't fly either and I had to remove that option because then he couldn't attach to the other offices.
I know it is a DNS problem (it almost always is), but I'm at wits end. I've tried flushing DNS, renewing dhcp, etc.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
The problem I'm having is connection at our office, but only pertaining to the Internet. All offices use DSL and while he can connect to our office, he cannot use the internet here (internet connectivity at all other offices works just fine). When I ran ipconfig on his machine it shows all the DNS servers he connects to except ours. It will not register our DNS server (which is set to automatically get an addres from the DHCP server) altho he can connect to the network and utilize all network drives and services except the Internet. The default gateway registers correctly. His computer name does not appear on the dhcp server. I've had this problem on other notebooks and since their machines don't connect to other offices, I've had to assign static IPs. I also tried assigning him a static IP address and that didn't fly either and I had to remove that option because then he couldn't attach to the other offices.
I know it is a DNS problem (it almost always is), but I'm at wits end. I've tried flushing DNS, renewing dhcp, etc.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.