Networking with windows 2000

Static IP Address. If you're running a Web server or a virtual private network that will be accessible over the Internet, you need a static IP address. Additionally, you will almost certainly want to register the server's name like ZDNet Smart Business with a DNS domain name system server so that other networks can match up the name with the correct address.

Your Internet service provider can assist you in acquiring either a single address or a block of addresses, and registering them with a DNS server. This stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A server with a block of IP addresses parcels them out, one at a time, to machines on the network.

If you have a Windows server on your network, use its built-in DHCP server to dramatically reduce administrative headaches. In this configuration, each Windows workstation regardless of Windows version should be set to obtain an IP address automatically.

This confusing option is intended for networks running Windows 98 and Windows in any combination , without a server or a direct Internet connection. Knowledge Base article Q explains this process more fully. Private IP Addresses. The standards-setting group that manages Internet numbers has set aside several blocks of addresses specifically intended for use on private networks that are not connected to the Internet at large. Knowledge Base article Q describes these addresses and how to use them.

What options do you have? Windows 98 and Windows come with Internet Explorer pre-installed; you can't get rid of it. And if you install Office on Windows 95 or Windows NT machines, the setup program installs Internet Explorer on those platforms, too. The reason for this requirement is threefold: Windows Installer requires Internet Explorer's desktop update in order to support so-called self-healing applications; Outlook requires Outlook Express for newsgroup access; and PowerPoint's presentation broadcasting requires NetMeeting.

Although you can never get rid of Internet Explorer altogether, you can hide it from users. You can remove the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop, for instance, and prevent users from changing the default browser.

Ironically, all you need to get rid of this Microsoft software is. An administrator defines a policy, which is stored on the server. Then, when a user logs onto the network, Windows downloads that policy and applies it to the user. The trick here is to know which policies you can use to hide Internet Explorer from the user. If your office uses Netscape Navigator, start with a minimal installation of Internet Explorer. Office requires these components. Then, on your server, set the following policies to hide Internet Explorer.

Setting these policies is a good step towards hiding Internet Explorer from users, but there are many more policies you can use to lock it down even more. By methodically going through categories in the Group Policy Editor gpedit. This was my second choice as I am not a big fan of wizards.

But when the boss says jump, you have to say how high, right??? Mikkilusa, you say you are having DNS troubles? Do you think that it is ready for the public? TREP Yes. It is as stable as anyone could ever hope for in a Windows operating system :. It has great hardware support and its use of IRQ handling is amazing. Does it do virtual IRQs or what? Or upgrade from NT4? What Windows does is it uses virtual IRQs.

There are still the standard , but Win has great ability to share current resources for full potential.

And how does it trick the hardware to support something higher than standard? But you can upgrade from NT4 if you like, and there probably would not be much problem. Perform the upgrade first and then if you have errors, clean install. Just remember to back up files. Basically it works on this principle. Windows uses this method, but the software masks any errors of concurrent use so, in theory, they have opened up many more resources. I remember there used to be a problem with Registry differences that forced to you reinstall the application.

Change from NT to with 0 down time. It was time for a hardware upgrade anyways. I mean, if the OS is creating virtual interrupts that it has to juggle with conflicting multiple REAL IRQs, that a server could quickly bog down if you did too much of it.

I read that off a news site months ago. Simply double-click the icon called Make New Connection to create new network or dial-up networking connections. Windows then launches a wizard that guides you through the process. You can use the individual connection icons to review or modify connection properties.

Laptops and disappearing networking icons Laptop computers behave a bit differently. On a laptop system, the Network And Dial Up Connections window would still contain the Make New Connection icon, but it would probably also contain one or two icons related to dial-up networking. One icon might be used to connect to an Internet service provider, while the second icon might allow a dial-up connection to a corporate RAS server.

Laptops also have icons for LAN connections in this folder, but their behavior is strange. When the computer is connected to one of these devices, the icon for it exists. However, when you remove a PCMCIA card or disconnect from a docking station that contains a network card, the connection icon disappears until the network device is reconnected.

This wireless networking requires a special network card. When I switch network cards, the icons change. New approach to networking The way that notebook computers running Windows Professional deal with network connections is also different than in previous versions of Windows.

In older versions, such as Windows 98, mapped network drives tended to be temporary. For example, in Windows 98, you might run the Net Use command to map a network drive while connected to the network. As soon as you log out, the drive mapping would no longer exist.

You would no longer see any references to the drive whether you were connected to the network or not. Suppose that you run Net Use to map a network drive within Windows Professional.