Recent content by geo77

Hi, I am beginning to feel lost and I need some help because I need to fix this problem I've been having at work. Basically, I have been having issues with my network drives, seems like after a certain amount of time computers are not able to see my other computers in the same workgroup, and...

Hello all, I am facing a problem, I can't seem to figure out in some of my workstations mainly running windows 7. So, I have two physical networks connected via vpn, and because I needed to have them resolve by name I had to set up a wins server and add it to all of my workstations for the...

I do have a central server, but I was trying to get this to work with a WINS server, (not sure if wins is even a good solution, since it is old technology) but at least it will give me the ability to have a back up WINS server in case of failure. In any case, I would like to get this workgroup...

Hello hoassb, That is actually what I am doing as a work around at the moment, however it becomes really unpractical, when you have to manage over ten machines.. Thanks for the suggestion though..

Hello, I have unistalled disabled all firewalls/antivirus that I had set up for each machine, still the same symptom. One thing that I found curous, is that when I chose Home network as the typ of network, I can ping that machine at least via ipadress,but if I select the Work option I can't ping...

Hello, All computers are part of the workgroup, no duplication of netbios names exist. Netbios over tcp/ip is enabled.

Hello all, I have a small workgroup that I am able to ping machines by ipaddress, but can't seem to be able to ping by machine name. I have even installed a WINS server and added it to my dhcp configuration. What is really weird is that if I do a nbtstat -A 192.168.1.xx I get the name of the...

Ok, this is really confusing me now, I installed a virtual machine using virtual box. I have the virtual network adapter in bridge mode, and it works flawlessly. I'm not even sure how this could be possible, if the actual adapter is having problems for the virtual one to work flawlessly. Any...

Nope, ran it but the issue persists..

Hello, I have a weird problem, I can ping certain hosts in my network without a problem, but certain others when I try to ping at first it will come back with Destination host unreachable, but after a minute of running "ping -t 192.168.1.140" it will find it and replies start coming back. I...

Hello all, I recently changed over to gmail and I have created an IMAP connection, however I have some old emails from my old pop3 account that I wanted to sync up to gmail. From all posts I've read all I need to do is create a new folder in outlook, which will create a folder in gmail, which...

Trouble, I am using two devices that use some sort of linux OS which use ipsec vpn tunnel. Do you know there is such settings for the ipsec protocol? ussnorway, I wish I would have been able to design the network from the ground up, but I inherited a badly designed network setup using hubs and...

Thank you, so much for that great tip. I will try it on my network and report back. I am eventually going to install active directory in this network, I'm wondering if there are other protocols I should be aware of? if you know please share this info, I am kind of new to the world of vpn. I am...

Hello all, I just thought of something that might be related to my ussue above, but not sure. Both my networks have their own separate dhcp servers which is their respective default router. Should I have my dhcp server set up in the same machine as my Wins server?

Hello all, I have two networks that are connected via vpn, the two subnets are as follows 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24 I need to be able to resolve by name from one network to the other, most of my computers run windows 7 pro. My wins server's ip address is 192.168.1.5 and I have set up my...