I have a client that we just helped convert some of their network infrastructure for. We switched out a Netgear VPN Firewall router for a Soekris Net5501 running pfSense firewall. Previously, the internal Windows Domain Controller was providing WINS and DHCP services, and DNS services were all pointing to their ISP addresses. Now, the pfSense appliance is providing DNS and DHCP services, and it is pointing to the company's internal DNS server first and the ISP servers second.
Mostly this setup work fine, but users who are running Windows XP are experiencing a connectivity issues with some legacy software apps - an Access database that is linked to an internal SQL Server 2000 instance, and a Visual Basic application that also connects to the SQL Server. I believe (but I'm not sure) that these apps both use ADO and netbios names for the connection to the SQL Server. This really is not my area of expertise, especially dealing with client server apps and Windows name resolution issues. Anyone have any thoughts about what might be wrong and how we could resolve the problem? I am trying to verify that Vista users are OK. They might only have one or two machines with Vista, mostly they run Win 2K Workstation, which is working fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292081 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
