Thanks for all the help Lanwench

Which firewall would you recommend?
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.

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)

Removed the secondary ip address from the workstaion.

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.