Windows 2003 error message

[hamidjunior]

After some googling I narrowed it down to DNS problem. The solution offered by people was to manually set primary DNS address on clients to DC's IP and secondary to DSL/Cable ISP Primary DNS IP. That is assuming DC is running DNS server. The one I am talking about is not yet.

Now, folks that I am helping to set up Server 2003 R2, (I am new at this but gotta learn) run of building's T1, and they are sitting on 192.168.29.x subnet with about 7 XP machines (2 Home unfortunately). The server itself is getting dynamic IP, so obviously every time I try to start setting up DNS server it urges me to assigns static IP because of the know reasons, but I can not do that. Should I just go ahead and set up DNS server anyways?

So far the errors are random but happend a least couple times a day. I really don't want every client to log on and off few times a day to fix this annoying issue. Help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

 

[RebateMonger]

I suggest learning this stuff on your own network. Set up Virtual PC, create an internal-only network, and install the 180-day trial versions of Server 2003 and some trial versions of Vista. Learning on somebody else's server is a horrible idea. Some of the mistakes you will make can be permanent and virtually "unfixable" without rebuilding their entire server.

If the people you are helping don't know what they are doing, they should hire a qualified consultant to either design their network or do the install or help them with the install. As I mentioned, mistakes at this stage can be very costly.

 

[hamidjunior]

What you mentioned is a proper way of doing things by the book RebateMonger and I am practicing at home as much as I can afford, however there is always something I do not know when I go to a client no matter how much I learn. And I definitely do not try to overestimate my abilities and harm somebody else's property, I know enough to prevent myself from implicating "permanent and unfixable" errors.

I would appreciate even more if I could get more of a useful help towards my problem at hand, that is mainly the "The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you" error on different clients. Thanx.

 

[VirtualLarry]

A server box on a dynamic IP is just a bad, bad idea, no matter how you slice it.

 

[hamidjunior]

Yeah I know, I have to figure out to get the server box on static IP. Maybe I can ask the building management in charge of IT part to separate one address specifically for the server, that would solve many issues. Or find some other way, but this server gotta be on static.