[K12OSN] Windows connectivity

[Peter Hartmann]

Well 192.168.1.x and 192.168.0.x are two different networks.  Why not
keep the windows machines in the 192.168.0.x network and then access
the mail server by Fully Qualified Domain Name instead of ip addreess?



Peter



On 1/11/06, Liam Marshall <computers at stmaurice.mb.ca> wrote:
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> Lab is completely k12ltsp 4.4.x  Terminal server and 32 workstations
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> I have a windows 2000 machine sitting in a corner with a third party mail
> server sitting on it.  It has an ip of 192.168.1.3
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> Linsys router is 192.168.1.1 not acting as dhcp server
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> Server private side nic is of course 192.168.0.254 dhcping with the second
> nic static ip of 192.168.1.2
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> Linux workstations can see the server, can surf web pages, and can connect
> to the mail server whether it is through the private ip of .1.3 or through
> its mx record mail.mycompany.ca, which goes through the router which has the
> mail ports forwarded to the .1.3
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> On the linux side, all is good.
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> The few windows machines participating on the network were connecting to the
> server running samba for file serving.  They get the ips and dns numbers
> through the linux servers dhcp services.  They can now surf, get files off
> samba, but can no longer get to the mail server in the corner.  They used to
> be able to.  Today I can't telnet in on port 25, can't ping .1.3 can't see
> it in any way.  Used to be able to, as early as this morning.
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> Solved this problem by assigning static ip addys to the windows machine,
> specifying both the gateway and the dns servers.  Used the router as the
> gateway and the dns numbers of my providers machines.  Doing that I can
> access the mail server.  But if I leave it like that those machines won't be
> able to print to the printer or grab files off samba as the ip address is on
> the wrong subnet mask.  .1.x instead of .0.x
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> Any ideas, suggestions, help
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> I have no idea what to do now
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