Network 2 on Clients and Now on Server

[prestogeek]

I'm having this issue wherein I try to join clients to the domain and they place themselves on this Network 2 connection. Really maddening. I have two domains and was only having the issue with one and thought I solved it my making sure the DNS server address was added to the connection's properties (as opposed to DHCP). But now my other domain has it as well - I try to add clients to the domain and they go to Network 2 - public network. AND this morning I notice my server has the notification that it is on Network 2 and has no Internet access, but it does. I logged on and was able to get out. All shares seem available and no one is screaming...except me.

 

What is going on? I have tried disabling and re-enabling the NIC. (Note to self: don't so this over an RDP connection). But haven't done it on THIS server because the last time I tried that and had to restart the VM didn't come back. It was Grace of God and some help from people here that I got it back.

 

Any ideas? Why would the server do this?

 

TX

[Oaktech]

Have tried adding the domain DNS suffix to the connection properties?

 

Do you have Direct Access in place?

[prestogeek]

On the clients: I'll go into the adapter/connection properties/settings, goto IPV4, check that the ip is set to DHCP and then manually load my DNS server address into the DNS space. That seemed to work at least once.

Sorry, not sure what Direct Access is..don't think so. I'm a relative newbie in that this network is a lot bigger than any I've managed so far. And we use AD which I didn't before.

[Oaktech]

On the clients: I'll go into the adapter/connection properties/settings, goto IPV4, check that the ip is set to DHCP and then manually load my DNS server address into the DNS space. That seemed to work at least once.

Sorry, not sure what Direct Access is..don't think so. I'm a relative newbie in that this network is a lot bigger than any I've managed so far. And we use AD which I didn't before.

 

Direct Access is a seamless VPN that if incorrectly configured can convince your clients that they are outside your network when they are inside it!

 

I don't think you've done quite what I meant...

 

In IPv4 properties, click advanced, click DNS, type the rest of your FQDN in the 'DNS Suffix for this connection' box - example 'school.local' make sure the 'register this connection's address in DNS' is also ticked. OK and reboot. See what happens.

[prestogeek]

Thank you Oaktech - I will do that with the next client. How about the server? Any idea why its connection would suddenly show 'Network 2 - no internet access' instead of its usual 'x.local - internet access' ?

Also, I have noticed that when I ping the servers with their name, I will get an IP back or MAC address. Shouldn't they reply with a name? Do I have some sort of internal DNS issues? I think something is up - but the Server Manager dashboards all read green.

[Oaktech]

Have a shufty at this... It's a Network Location Awareness issue...

 

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