Internet connection sharing problem

[bhattmilan]

Dear Friend,

I am new to networking so my problems might be silly for you guys but please help me a little...i have windows 2003 small business server, and it works fine. This pc is domain controller also and 4 computers in house are connected to domain through 2nd network card via switch, sharing internet also. Now before today everything was okay but today I tried to install Cisco VPN software on windows 2003 small business server to connect to my university and while installing that some error occurred and somehow vpn didn’t work. I uninstalled it. And restarted the win 2k3, but local network internet sharing started giving troubles...from client pcs are win xp prof. service pack 2 with security and cookies settings middle. Now they can access only google, gmail websites...when I type hotmail, yahoo or any common website it searches and no page found error...so they have internet but why it is behaving like this?? server pc is connected to DSL internet via NetGear router... Can anybody help please...

Thanks,

Milan

[cyco]

Originally Posted by bhattmilan

Dear Friend,

I am new to networking so my problems might be silly for you guys but please help me a little...i have windows 2003 small business server, and it works fine. This pc is domain controller also and 4 computers in house are connected to domain through 2nd network card via switch, sharing internet also. Now before today everything was okay but today I tried to install Cisco VPN software on windows 2003 small business server to connect to my university and while installing that some error occurred and somehow vpn didn’t work. I uninstalled it. And restarted the win 2k3, but local network internet sharing started giving troubles...from client pcs are win xp prof. service pack 2 with security and cookies settings middle. Now they can access only google, gmail websites...when I type hotmail, yahoo or any common website it searches and no page found error...so they have internet but why it is behaving like this?? server pc is connected to DSL internet via NetGear router... Can anybody help please...

Thanks,

Milan

Seems to me that you have simply pooched your "DNS" setting for your Internet Connection... Google can be reached as it is still in your cache, but the others are probably not so they must load fresh from the web. Now, in case you aren't up on the different jobs of the servers, the DNS (Domain Name Server) is responsible for turning "english" type addresses (www.whatever.com) into REAL internet addys (123.11.22.333). One way to test is to type a known IP adress into the "go" box instead of a Domain name.

Let me know if this helps...

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[Jenn]

Hi Milan,

I had exactly the same problem as yourself. I could get internet access on the server but not locally, from workstations which worked before the Cisco Install (Client 4.6). I uninstalled the Cisco client sw but to no avail. I then tried reinstalling the Cisco VPN client on the workstations, and they worked ! Got this from another forum, don't know why this worked, perhaps firewall type issues. Hope this Helps.

Jennifer

[Disk_Contented]

"This pc is domain controller".

A domain controller in your house. Why?