Re: [KCFusion] SA help (OT)

[Adaryl Wakefield]

OK but what does that mean exactly that its the primary domain controller. According to  my network diagram it should have had little impact. In fact that computer sits off most of the time with no problems.   Adaryl "Did you reboot?" Wakefield Aviator by passion Programmer by sheer force of will ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Dunwiddie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: RE: [KCFusion] SA help (OT) It sounds to me like that really was your primary domain controller and you just took it down. Everything happened when you demoted it. I'd suggest getting it set back up as a pdc and crossing your fingers and finding another server to back up to.   Bruce Dunwiddie Ticket Technology P: 866.543.3331 F: 913.451.7832 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Adaryl Wakefield Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [KCFusion] SA help (OT) Ok well here is what I was doing. I was putting Norton Ghost on the webserver to back it up to a harddrive on the network. I mapped a drive on the gateway to the server I wanted to back up to and continued to set up Ghost. Ghost told me that it would not take a mapped drive that did not use a computer name. I then tried to change the name of the backup computer and it told me no cause it was a primary domain controller. Someone else did this work. I figured it was part of the internal mail system that we no longer use so i ran dcpromo, demoted the computer and changed the name. I then went back to the webserver and tried to map a drive using the new name of the back up computer and it was like no. So then I glare at it for a while with my lip curled up. I ran around to some other computers and discovered that I could see the backup computer from other PCs in the office but I could not see the webserver. On the webserver despite the fact that its part of the same workgroup as all the other computers the network places window is empty like its the only computer on the network. Actually the webserver its self does not even show up. Its all on the same work group with static IPs and no firewall changes. Oddly enough now we can't surf the net but we can see our webpage. All gateways and DNSes ping out fine. I don't know if the network thing and the web thing are related. Its been a very hair pulling morning and I don't have any hair.   Adaryl "Did you reboot?" Wakefield Aviator by passion Programmer by sheer force of will ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Dunwiddie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: RE: [KCFusion] SA help (OT) I'm not going to claim any form of expertise in these matters, so I'm just going to list maybe some questions that might spark an idea in your head as to what might have happened. I know that when a computer logs on to the network, it has to negotiate the ip from the dhcp server, but then it has to register itself with the primary dns server on the network for your dns mapping of machine name to ip to work. Has your primary dns server failed? You should have a secondary dns server also, and has it failed? Have new firewalls been installed on any of the machines affected or any of the primary dns/dhcp servers that might be blocking the necessary communication between the machines? Is there a domain involved or is it just a workgroup? Have any of the network settings been changed recently for either the domain, or any of the machines? How long has it been since you've noticed these problems? It normally seems to take maybe 10 - 15 minutes for the dns to register on the domain just from my experience, and sometimes quite a bit longer. What has changed recently around the same time as the problems started happening?   Bruce Dunwiddie Ticket Technology P: 866.543.3331 F: 913.451.7832 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Adaryl Wakefield Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [KCFusion] SA help (OT) What does it mean when you can find a computer on the network by IP but not by computer name? I have three computers all in the same workgroup. A webserver a backup server and a workstation. I can't see the backup server from the webserver but I can see the backup server from my workstation. I can see the backup server from the webserver if I map a drive using the IP address but not the computer name.    Adaryl "Did you reboot?" Wakefield Aviator by passion Programmer by sheer force of will