Hi there, I've just configured my Active Directory Domain, everything's working fine, but I have a Linksys WRT54G broadband router, and every wireless laptop that connects to this device is not reaching the AD to validate a username/password credentials, what I want is to be able to connect to the network services by connecting to my Active Directory services through my wireless device, right now if I connect to my linksys I can't list network connections, printers, etc. does anyone knows how to connect my linksys to my Active Directory..? any help will be great!

1. Is the server connected to the linksys router? 2. Is the server also DHCP server? 3. Is the linksys DHCP-server? (If so, there MUST be only one DHCP-server !!!) 4. Is the Laptop in the same ip range as the server? 5. who does the DNS service? Many questions to be checked and answered by you. Paul

nop. 1. the AD domain contorller is not connected to the linksys, only laptop's are connected to the linksys 2. My domain controller is also a DHCP server, but I configured the linksys to obtain a static IP address 3. the linksys is also a DHCP server, but only for the laptop's 4. the laptop therefore has another ip addrees 5. the DNS service is provided by the AD domain controller too. the laptop's connected to the linksys can surf the web, because the linksys has an IP address given by my DHCP server, but when a laptop connected to the linksys ask for an AD service I got a credential error, let me give ypou an example: my laptop connects to the linksys and receives an IP address (192.168.1.101), with this I can reach my Firewall and can surf the web, I can ping every device on my LAN such as Printers, Servers, and any host, but if I try to connect to a share folder in any of my servers I just can see the share folders but can list them, I think this is because the linksys is not granted to join my Active Directory domain, so I want to give this access in my AD to my LinkSys, I hope my explanation was understood. thanks !

The main quenstion is, can the laptop ping the server by name, e-g. ping yourserver.com If not, the problem is your dns service. Paul

yeap, I can ping the server by its name, but the services I cannot use them. AD is not validating access to my linksys.

You can't join a router to AD. You can't assign a ip to the lan side of the router via the servers dhcp so I am not sure of your thinking there. But then you have a couple of contradictory statements. For example: "the AD domain contorller is not connected to the linksys" yet "my laptop connects to the linksys ... I can ping every device on my LAN" Clearly your router is connected to your lan or you wouldn't have access from a laptop to ping anything on the lan. Here is the proper physical and logical configuration. 1. disable dhcp on the router. 2. assign the lan side [gateway] of the router an address in your lan subnet. Apparently you are running 192.168.1.x for your lan's subnet. 3. exclude the gateway address from your servers dhcp scope 4. goes without saying but I will say it anyway; connect the linksys to your lan. 5. properly configure your MS DNS server. If you don't know about the forwarder tab, ask. 6. join the laptops to the AD domain [it appears you have not done so] 7. on some linksys routers the wireless has its own dhcp service that can't be disabled. You need to do static ip assignments to your laptops if this is the case. Again you need to exclude these static ips from your servers dhcp scope so there are not ip conflicts. Ignoring #7 for the moment the way this works is the laptops make a dhcp request which goes thru the lan side of the router to the MS dhcp server and they get an ip address. This allows them to communicate with the server and AD as well as having web access. Any questions just ask. Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search

no, my explanation wasn't that good... 1.- My AD domain server (also a DHCP) asigns an IP address, Default gateway and DNS Server to my linksys ( ip: 190.190.166.180 subnetmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 190.190.166.1 DNS Server 190.190.166.15 ) 2.- My linksys has another pool of ip's (192.168.1.x) 3.- my laptops has already been added to my AD through ethernet cable 4.- as the linksys has an ip address which belongs to my LAN (190.190.166.x) I am able to ping every host in my LAN from any laptop connected through my Linksys, its a 3rd layer logic, just routing. 5.- the problem is that I am not able to join any device in my LAN which needs an AD identification (username & password) so, the problem that I have is not a routing problem, it is a sesion problem, I need to give my linksys the faculty to deliver AD credentials to join my AD Domain.