2000 Server Login Woes
From: Mike Whalen (otakuvidiot@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/22/03
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From: otakuvidiot@hotmail.com (Mike Whalen) Date: 21 Mar 2003 18:30:45 -0800
I'm trying to insert a router (Netgear FVS318) between a 2000 Server
and several XP Pro clients which each have two mapped network drives.
I have deployed this router in home and office environments before.
However, whenever I set it up, every XP client will hang trying to
show the contents of My Computer or My Network Places. (In this case,
"hang" means the My Computer or My Network Places window will open,
but remains blank until I remove the network cable and Windows detects
that the cable has been removed.
This set up is fairly complicated. I'll explain it below, but, if you
want, skip to the simplified test I performed today. The issue is
prevalent on the entire network _and_ the simplified setup.
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The set up is thus:
Windows 2000 Server.
Two NICs, one NVidia integrated, one 3Com. Both are 10/100.
The 3com NIC is connected to the cable modem and is sharing the
Internet connection with the other NIC.
The NVidia NIC is connected to a Asante Switch (not a router).
The Asante Switch serves all the XP Pro clients (5 computers) in the
building.
This is a Workgroup. Not a domain.
TCP/IP is the only protocol enabled. NetBIOS is enabled over TCP/IP.
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Here's what I did today.
1. I plugged in the router, kept it disconnected from the LAN, and
programmed it to work with their cable internet service. I did NOT use
DHCP on the router.
2. I plugged the cable modem into the WAN connection on the router and
verfied authentication with the cable service.
3. I disabled Internet Connection Sharing from the 3Com NIC. I then
plugged one end of the 3Com NIC cable into the a port on the router.
4. I configured the 3Com NIC to use a different static IP address
(192.168.0.4), same DNS settings and the router address of
192.168.0.1. (With ICS, the 3Com NIC was set to 192.168.0.1.)
5. I plugged in the one client I was testing directly into another
port on the router, thus eliminating the switch.
6. I software-disabled the NVidia NIC and unplugged the NIC-to-Switch
cable from the NIC.
So, if you think of this topologically:
2000 Server to Router to XP client.
Note that the the client's "entrance" to the server now is the 3Com
card. Before, it was hooked into the switch which was then connected
to the NVidia card.
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Under this condition, the following happen:
1. The connection to the Internet works w/o incident.
2. If I disconnect the mapped network drives on the XP client, then
browse through My Network Place and re-map the drives, the maps work
without incident. I can see the server and the files in the shares.
3. If I reboot the XP client after having mapped the drives, the maps
_will_ reconnect, but trying to go to My Computer or My Network Places
will produce the "hang" condition I defined before.
I tried IPX just to try another protocol, but this produced the same
condition.
What do you guys think?
I wish I had tried the same hook up through the NVidia NIC, since this
was the "entrance" for the client's before. I also wish I had
eliminated the router with a crossover cable directly into the 3Com.
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