added 2kServer now 98 machines can't see intra/inter-net after reboot

[earme]

My client has a Novell network that I put a 2000 server on to run the intranet site off of. Once I got the 2000 box up and running everything appeared to be going fine. Everyone could see the intranet and visit internet sites. We had to reboot one of the 98 machines later and suddenly it couldn't see the intranet anymore, but it could still get to yahoo.com. Running winipcfg showed that it had some incorrect settings, but the network settings on the pc are the same as the other pc's. All 98 machines are set up to get there network settings automatically.
I'm not their network person, just their intranet/web person, but their network person is on vacation and the problem needs to be fixed ASAP.
Now the rebooted machines can't see external sites either. They can still browse the network though.
Any suggestions?
If I need to provide more info please let me know!
Thanks,
Earme

 

[CoolClark]

Sound like you have dhcp server running on the Win2k machine. One way to check is to run winipcfg on the 98 machine and see what DHCP server is coming up. If it's pointing to the Win2k server you need to uninstall DHCP server from the Win2k server.

 

[earme]

I deleted the DHCP server from Computer Management, but it came back. So I deleted the 'scope' (?) that it had in there, so all that is left under the DHCP is 'Server Options'.
I checked via winipcfg what the settings are and everything looks correct except for the subnet. It should be 255.255.255.0 and it's showing up as 255.0.0.0.
The computers can see the internet after all, but not the intranet.
I also found out that some of the computers are running ME and they're having the same problems.
Any more suggestions?
Thanks for your help,
Earme

 

[dellboy]

I going to be a little sketchy here but it may help.

We had similar problems here with Win98/ME machines not seeing the network properly and the intranet etc but they could see the internet. I didn't deal with it specifically therefore I'm not sure. I think the network admin guy added the intranet IP to the DNS and may also have had to create a WINS entry due to 98/ME not liking DNS.

While it certainly sounds like the DHCP is serving IP addresses 98/ME can't interpret DNS properly and hence your problems. As I said I would be sketchy but it may hopefully help prompt someone who really knows the answer and whats what

Cheers

 

[earme]

They had a network guy come in and this is what we did. We stopped the DHCP server service running on the pc and told it to disable it. He then had to restart the router that was assigning IP addresses because the 2000 Server told it to effectively 'be quiet'.
That solved the problem.

Thanks!
Earme