Win 2000 server cannot see network

[kpgills]

Hi all,

After some advice. I installed a Windows 2000 server yesterday and setup the domain name and all the clients (4 Win 2000 users and 2 Win 98).

Today another member of staff installed Internet Connection sharing on the server - changing the IP address of the server to 192.168.0.1 - now none of the clients can view the server and the server cannot view the clients.

Does anyone know how to set-up the server, or workstations\clients, so they can all once again log into the server and use shared printers etc? I`ve removed Internet connection sharing but still none of the users can see the server.

Thanks in advance,

Keith

(also does anyone know how you should set-up internet connection sharing on a Win 2000 server so it does not effect the network?).

[homer15]

was dhcp in place before? if so, you might need to adjust the ip range so that all of the computers are in the same range.

and what do you mean by setting up internet sharing without affecting the network? do you mean slowing down the network?

[kpgills]

Thanks for the reply. DHCP was in place before - how do I go about changing the settings (sorry but I`m a novice at this).

How do I know what range they should be set to?

Internet wise I was talking about enabling connection sharing without changing the IP address of the network card on the server. It appears that is what has happened.

[padawan]

Why are you running ICS on the server? Do you have a router in the office, to?

To set the DHCP scope, go to start->programs->admin tool (i think, i am not at a server right now). Open the DHCP option. There will be our scope of addresses. You should have a block of assigned addresses. Be sure to NOT USE the server's address in the available scope. Also reserve the addresses for the printers and other servers. I believe in the MMC, there is a button that says Create New Scope, this is where you would input the range of addresses to use, lease duration, etc. I'm in a room full of Macs, so I can't write a full tutorial on it right now. I don't do it all that often, so I can't remeber all the buttons and such from memory.

[kpgills]

Thanks - was just trying to figure out how it lost connection just by installing ICS. It was all working before.

ICS was put onto the server by someone else. We`ve got a ISDN internet connection which we wanted to share - is their another way to do it?

Daft question but how do I find out the addresses, lease etc? All the PCs can actually see each other, it`s just the connection to the server and logging onto the server which they can`t do.

[glc]

Yes, you get an ISDN router that has a DHCP server in it, and plug it into your switch. You then disable the DHCP services in the server and configure it like the clients - to use DHCP to get IP address etc.