Topic: FTP and Pinging in DOs mode

[Kip Hess]

Hi,

I have E-SMITH running as a gateway and mail server. It is attached to my NT 4.0 network and there are 5 windows workstations on the network. My problem is native FTP and PINGING from a DOS prompt.

I have configured the NT to use the E-SMITH as a gateway and have set the E-smith as the secondary DNS on the NT. I can PING and FTP from the NT to the internet at a DOS prompt but, I can not from any of the workstations.

When I FTP and try and open a site from a workstation I get

-> ftp: connect :Host is unreachable

When I ping an external address from a workstation the E-SMITH dials out and connect to the internet but I received the following message at the workstation

C:\WINDOWS>ping www.en.com
Pinging www.en.com [207.180.209.88] with 32 bytes of data:
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Ping statistics for 207.180.209.88:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

I would apreciate any help I could get on this problem


Thanks

Kip Hess

[Charlie Brady]

Kip Hess wrote:

> When I ping an external address from a workstation the E-SMITH
> dials out and connect to the internet but I received the
> following message at the workstation
>
> C:\WINDOWS>ping www.en.com Pinging www.en.com
> [207.180.209.88] with 32 bytes of data: Destination host
> unreachable.

My guess is that the e-smith server is set as a DNS host, so is dialing up to do the DNS lookup, but the e-smith server is not the default gateway for your workstation, so it cannot reach the internet view the e-smith gateway.

You should set the e-smith server as the primary (and only) DNS on your clients, and also set it as the default gateway. This will happen automatically if you have the DHCP server enabled on your e-smith box, and you use DHCP on the clients.

regards

Charlie

[Scott Duncan]

The BEST way is to let e-smith thake care of ALL name resolution, and DHCP. That way there is no confusion as to where the gateways are. If you are using the NT DHCP server, set the following scope values:

003 Router =
005 Name Servers =
006 DNS Servers =
011 Resource Location Servers=
031 Perform Router Discovery = 0x1
032 Router scolicitation Address =
044 WINS/NBNS Servers =
045 NetBIOS over TCP/IP NBDD =
046 WINS/NBT Node Type = 0x8

-s


Charlie Brady wrote:

> Kip Hess wrote:
>
> > When I ping an external address from a workstation the
> E-SMITH > dials out and connect to the internet but I
> received the > following message at the workstation >
> > C:\WINDOWS>ping www.en.com Pinging www.en.com >
> [207.180.209.88] with 32 bytes of data: Destination host >
> unreachable.
>
> My guess is that the e-smith server is set as a DNS host, so is
> dialing up to do the DNS lookup, but the e-smith server is not
> the default gateway for your workstation, so it cannot reach
> the internet view the e-smith gateway.
>
> You should set the e-smith server as the primary (and only) DNS
> on your clients, and also set it as the default gateway. This
> will happen automatically if you have the DHCP server enabled
> on your e-smith box, and you use DHCP on the clients.
>
> regards
>
> Charlie