Recent content by larryluckham

Thought I'd post a follow up to close this out. Not sure exactly what solved the problem, or if it was the combination of small adjustments, but network resources haven't disappeared for a number of days now and that was not the history prior to troubleshooting.

I definitely understand your point Tater. As long as you have good administrative control of the network and are willing to maintain control of the address assignments so that you don't accidentally end up with duplicates, or other problems, I can see that it could work quite well. I many...

I've never really liked having a router handle DHCP. Likewise, my preference has been static IP's on servers, or specialied connected devices, and DHCP for the rest. Not arguing better or worse, just personal preference. As to the second NIC having a DHCP assigned address, this should not have...

We always run servers with static IP's. While it's true that on a small LAN, and this is one, setting everything to static is clearly an option. With larger networks managing the IP's becomes a problem and since you almost always have to have the DHCP service running somewhere on the LAN it just...

Thanks for the suggestions and I appreciate the quick response. Most of what you suggested has been checked. We don't have any legacy names so no WINS, NetBIOS is enabled, the DNS server seems to be registering names correctly, and network discovery is enabled. The servers all have a static IP...

We are having a problem with network resources randomly disappearing and reappearing on several Windows 7 computers on our LAN. Let me define the environment. Domain LAN with 7 Windows 2003 32 bit servers, including a DC, DHCP, etc. Desktop computers including 4 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit plus...