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Name: ultraxmode
Date: November 26, 2008 at 08:17:48 Pacific
OS: win2003
CPU/Ram: xeon
Comment:

Ok, here's the deal..

I have :

1 x Windows 2003 Server with 2 nic cards (one wireless, the other wired.)

1 x Windows XP (with wired nic)

1 x Windows XP (in a 5 meter distance with a wireless nic)

1 x 1Gbps switch 3com

1 x router (wireless and with four lan ports also)

So..

The wired PC is connected to the switch.
The Server is connected to the switch (via wired nic)
The wireless PC is 5 meters away.
I have a Domain.

I want :

The two PCs (wired and wireless) to passthrough the Server and go out to internet.

How am I going to do that? I want the two PC workstations to authenticate to the Domain.

Help?

Thanks in advance.. and sorry for my english..

Let's go Hyper ...



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Response Number 1
Name: Curt R
Date: November 26, 2008 at 08:41:02 Pacific
Reply:

The two PCs (wired and wireless) to passthrough the Server and go out to internet.

My first question is why? It's a lot simpler to have all clients/servers plugged into the switch, the switch in turn plugged into the router and all traffic flowing through the router. Looking as follows:

Internet >> Router >> Switch >> Clients & Server

You can do what you want by multihoming your server with dual (wired) NIC's. One would plug into your router (external network) and the other into your switch (internal network). You would then need to enable RRAS on the server. This scenario would look as follows:

Internet >> Server(RRAS) >> Switch >> Client

I would also recommend you get rid of the wireless NIC from the server and get a wireless Access Point instead.

The idea being, to reduce (as much as possible) the number of services running on your DC. This is why I wouldn't run RRAS and everything through the server and would instead go with my first scenario. It's simpler (you don't have to learn how to administer RRAS) and cleaner and less headaches in the long run.


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Response Number 2
Name: ultraxmode
Date: November 26, 2008 at 08:59:12 Pacific
Reply:

Curt R thank you very much for your response.

Question :

I want the wireless client to log to my Domain. How will I do that when the server is connected on the wired switch?

It's like that..

Router->Switch->Server-> PCs (wired and wireless) ? I am confused.. really..

I want my wireless computer to log in my Domain and have Group Policy applied on it..

Let's go Hyper ...


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Response Number 3
Name: ultraxmode
Date: November 27, 2008 at 04:54:28 Pacific
Reply:

Anyone?

Let's go Hyper ...


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