> > Makes sense > > > > I thought that was probably what was happenning > > > > I have no desire to run a dns server on my network - but I > would prefer to > > use AD to simplify user managment etc, and I undersatnd I have > to have DNS > > server runing to do it... > > > > First things first - have you got 2 network cards in the PC on which you > want to share the internet connection? (or an ISDN card and a > network card) > If not then you'll need to sort that out before you think about anything > else. ISDN and Network Card - I have internet connection on the client machine - just not external DNS.
I can get external DNS if I set the DNS settings for the client LAN connection to be the external ones assigned by my ISP - but that only works after a fashion - and it dials out if I try to access anything over the network... > I'm not entirely sure how Active Directory works, but the Internet > Connection sharing requires that the internal network card is set to be > 192.0.0.1 and PC on the network that are set to use this machine for their > internet connection look for this to pick up their own IP addresses. The > machine providing the share has to be the DHCP server and the connection > share will provide the DNS details. Tried that I have set ICS up before suceesfully on a WIN2K Pro box - and I found that I could set the client machines to use static IP as long as I set the gateway and DNS server to 192.168.0.1 But I have tryed both static and dynamic on the client and it does not make any difference The net card in the server is set to 192.168.0.1 > > Are you saying that there is no way that ICS and AD will cohabit > > successfully? > > > Not sure, but as long as the AD only wants to be a primary domain server, > you should be ok. Thats all I want it to be... > > My ISP provides DNS addresses that I can use instead of the dynamically > > assigned ones - I was wondering if I could use those in the DNS server? > Well - yes you kind of do, but only when the connection is up, > its a bit of > a pain to manually assign network details to PCs that are going > use a shared > connection. This should all be provided by the DHCP part of the internet > connection share. Much less hassle. Heh - 4 machine network... not too much hassle... The connection exists ok - just no dns- I can communicate via IP NPS. I mean - can I set the DNS server to look to the 2 ISP DNS servers (My ISP has these available) - so that any Domains that can't be resolved are forwarded to these servers to resolve. > > All I want is to have internet access for all the machines on my network > > (4...) and active directory to control access... > > > Is it the access the internet connection you want to manage? Cos I think > ICS, like other sharing in windows, has security settings. No - its users/passwords on the Network... > Regards > > Stephen Cheers Dan > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
