>OK Folks,
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>I am attempting to set up my first network and find it harder than first thought.
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>I have a WIN 2000 Server as Main-Server.FoxProServer.local
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>I have a WIN 2000 Professional Workstation as Pavilion
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>The server shows the workstation as pavilion. under the DHCP
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>I cannot ping either the server from the workstation or vice versa.
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>When I try to attach to the server in the properties of the NIC I get the workstation is unable to find the FoxProMain domain.
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>What am I doing wrong... It cant be this difficult.
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>Do I need DNS? the server shows it installed... What about WINS?
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>The server IP is 10.10.1.1
>DHCP offers the following IP 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.252

Your server is outside the range of the subdomain; try assigning it an IP address in the 10.0.0.xxx subnet; I tend to make the server 10.0.0.1

If youy have DNS activeated, it can serve as the WINS provider. You can run WINS without providing internal DNS. Make everything a part of the same subnet.