What a week.
 

I mean last week, the weekend and tonight.

I got everything running for my client and such. Mastered a whole new deployment system and yet I could not figure out why my DNS server was not running correctly.

I just figured it out. A biggest brain fart of all. It must be true. If you do fix cars for a living, chances are most of your cars will not run correctly. Same thing in the computer business. :rolleyes:

I'll fix the rest tomorrow. What a night.

So did you find the problem with your DNS server?

I'm learning that 2003 Enterprise Server does not like being behind a NAT firewall!

Yepp I fixed it. I had 2 NICs in the machine and I was screwing up the addresses.

Funny thing is 2k3 ES if you tell it to automatically set it up as a first server, it'll hide itself behind it's own NAT. It took me a while to figure out why my webserver was not pingable and not showing up while I can still surf the net from the server.

I did not choose the First Server option. I'm going to slowly have it take over the duties of my old server. It's still going to sit behind a NAT gateway provided by another computer.

The one thing I've noticed 2k3 ES doing that I don't like is it's trying to update the DNS records for my domain. I did not tell it to do this and I haven't found a way to turn this off yet.

Right click and say don't do it. but if you have NICs in there, it'll update its IP. The rest of the machines' IP on the DNS list will be left alone.

You guys are speaking another language..... :D

jargon is cool.

I've already turned off the DNS updates in TCP/IP. I'm not sure if it's causing my current problem but sometimes authentication can take forever (minutes) and other times it's instant. Even access to local resources can take forever while it waites for access rights. There is no CPU or HDD load on either computer while this is going on.

I'm still learning as I go though.

That's odd. It happens in a blink of an eye on my PII 350 box. You should see it on my dual Xenons. :D