Domain Control w/ DNS IP

[felixnet]

I am having a problem having a user/client connected to a Windows 2003 Server with their Server DNS IP. In order for me to have the client computer to have the Server DNS IP, I will have to do it manually. As right now the Client DNS IP is giving by the router. How can I assign a client DNS IP automatically from the server instead of the router? I want to user the server because I want to able to use group policy to control the cliets.

Thank you,

felixnet

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[Roadki11]

Not sure i totally understand the issue but i will take a stab at it. Sound like your router is issuing DHCP leases with the primary DNS IP being something other than you want. You can change the router DHCP settings to give out the proper DNS IP or you can turn off DHCP on the router and enable DHCP on your 2003 server. You can configure the 2003 DHCP server to issue the proper IPs for gateways, dns, time servers, wins servers or what ever else you may want. Am i warm on this or way off base with what you want to do?

RoadKi11

 

[felixnet]

Thank you for your response! Yes the IP was automatic given from the router. If I change the DHCP setting on the router, will I still have internet connection? I setup a DHCP on the Server, but I don't know if I did it correctly because the workstation didn't get an DHCP ip from the server. Do you have a tutorial website that will walk me through how to configure the server to issue a propers IPs for gateways, dns, time servers, wins servers?


Thank you

 

[TigerfanLSU]

The DNS service on your server will resolve the Internet queries for your clients. So yes, your clients will still have Internet access.

Make sure you turn off the DHCP on the router, or the DHCP service will not start on Win2K3. It will detect another service and not start. Drill down in the address lease tab and you will see if your clients got an address from your server or not.

Set your Win2k3 DNS servers to forward requests to your ISP's DNS in order to take unnecessary load off of your server. You will see a forwarding section under the properties of your DNS server.

So in DHCP, setup an IP range, give out the router IP for the default gateway and give out the server's address for the DNS server. That's it.

 

[felixnet]

Thank you, I got!