2003 Server DNS/DHCP Problem?

[jstn]

Hey Guys,

I've got a 2003 PDC, DHCP, and DNS server (192.168.0.100). My laptop users are reporting that when they take their laptops home they cannot access the internet.

I also had the same problem when I brought my laptop home. The system was not using my home DNS server even though I had renewed my IP with the DHCP server at my house (192.168.0.1).

When I do an nslookup it is referencing my DNS server from the office for the lookup, but when I run ipconfig it states that the DNS server is 192.168.0.1. Even when I explicity assign a static IP to my laptop at home, it continues to use 192.168.0.100 as the DNS.

The only way I can get the laptop to not use the DNS from work at home is to remove it from the domain.

I suspect that this is a DHCP setting on my server, but I'm uncertain where to check. Or it could be a profile problem? Any ideas?

Thanks guys!

- j

[morellana]

try this command on the laptop... it will reset the network adapter configuration in the registry

netsh int ip reset anyfilename.txt

then try a repair on the network adapter.

[tguy]

To simplify this problem and eliminate the hassles search for either Netswitcher or Mulitnetwork Manager at www.download.com

These simple, inexpensive utilities were written to deal with the issue you are having.

[Marsden]

There is no need for 3rd party utilities.

I bind DHCP and a static IP addresses to a single NIC all the time. In this case, two different subnets and DHCP. I plug this machine into 3 different networks and it is good to go without a single mouse click.

[tguy]

Marsden, neat trick how do you accomplish that??

[peachy]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...jj_ipa_fffq.asp

Does this do it for you?