Gazza wrote:
Thanks for all the help Lanwench

Which firewall would you recommend?

For a small office perimeter device, I like SonicWALL.

The windows firewall has served me well until this weekend and still
dont know why it has stopped letting the workstations connect to the
server.

Dunno, but I don't tend to put a software firewall app between the DC and
workstation, myself.

The dhcp on the router is a bit of a problem as i dont have access to
the router and i cant really change anything because it also serves
our database server.(not sure if i can run dhcp on the server without
it affecting anything else)

Yes - and your database server shouldn't be receiving anything via DHCP
anyway, as it's a server. You should find out who can get access to the
router & kill DHCP there.

Removed the secondary ip address from the workstaion.

Good.


Thanks
Gareth
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Gazza wrote:
Heres the ipconfig from the server

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : server01
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : stc-plumbing.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : stc-plumbing.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP NC373i Multifunction
Gigabit Server Ad
apter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-78-31-5D-0A
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.149
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.149

And hers the one from a workstation

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Workstation06
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE
Network Connecti
on
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-20-9E-FE-D2
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.37
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

You shouldn't have your router doing DHCP - it works better if you
use your server for that.

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.149
192.168.0.1

Also, remove the 2nd DNS server here.

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 16 February 2009 07:31:41
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 19 February 2009 07:31:41

The second IP address listed as a dns server was a test to see if i
can access the internet which worked.

The forwarders on the DNS server itself should be taking care of
that, though.