crazycucumber

Cool thanks for the info , I will be re visiting this tonight as it is not my full time job , I have to do it after hours ! I have however jsut been given the IP ranges and DNS settings to use Internally and Externally at the school , where I was under the impression as long as external was correct I could use any range , so internally I was using the 192.168.1.254 range. where as now I have been advised to use Internal IP - 10.13.82.254 Subnet - 255.255.255.0 Gateway - Blank DNS 10.13.82.254 External IP - 10.9.82.254 Subnet - 255.255.255.0 Gateway - 10.9.82.1 DNS1 - 10.15.48.4 DNS 2 - 10.15.48.5 So now I will have to change the IP on each Nic and change the DHCP scope to refelect this . Lets hope that is straight forward too ! I will also run the NetDiag stuff and post it here for you guys to cast an eye over . Thanks again for the help , its a lonely place in a server room in a school at 10pm at night with nobody to ask but Uncle google !

No Idea , I set it up on an internet connection I have at work ,it seemed to work ok, I then changed the IP of the second nic to match that of the range they needed in the school to access the internet. Do the education authority normally provide a setup routine for the broadband ? as I had to guess the IP range from other machines on the previous peer 2 peer workgroup type network.

Ok ,I was thrown in the deep end , now I am geting ill due to stress from this , so any help appreciated first off is there a step by step guide to a simple school install ? I have 1 2003 DC and 12 Comp suite XP clients , and 5 office staff type machines. I setup user accounts , and gave them separate Containers Pupils and staff ,and containers for the computers too pupilscomputers and staffcomputers. I only have 4 users setup for the suite. class1 , class2 etc etc so the whole suite will log on as class1 if they are indeed from that class. the only policies I have setup are folder redirection on my docs and a desktop background. I Just wonder if there is a default setup I could follow , as things don't quite work how they should . I am getting profile errors on some machines and others are fine , they are all identical builds. I have a printer connected via USB , I have shared it but none of the other machines can see it. And the internet seems really slow to respond , downloading once connected is quick, but it seems slow to resolve. I am using the 2 nics on the server with an internal range and external range . Its all just weird and I am out of my depth here a bit ! Any pointers to other posts or helpful articles / people woudl be great. THANKS