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Answer» Hi, I'm new to networking, and I need some help. I go to a Technical School, and I'm in the computer class. I'm towards the end of the class, and it's now become my job to administrate the network. The last people who did it didn't do a very good job. They had roaming profiles setup, and it took 30+ minutes to logon and logoff. They also messed up while trying to create a backup. It would download a 70+ GB .tmp file to each client and fill up the hard drive with a useless file. :/
That's why I've decided to completely redo everything. I know how to setup user accounts, that's really easy, but I'm not sure how to do it while not effecting the big picture.
I want to setup:
1. Internet Connection Sharing - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324286
2. Map A Network Drive - http://www.cae.wisc.edu/site/public/?title=nt4netuse
3. Change the Rights and Permissions of all the Clients through Group Policy. (No games!)
The problem with #1 is the administrator of the entire school has a proxy setup and the Microsoft web page says, "Do not use ICS on a network that: Uses static IP ADDRESSES, Has a Windows Server 2003 domain controller". Each person in our class needs a user account on our server, but at the same time I want keep access to the Internet. How can I do this?
The problem with #2 and #3 are I'm not sure how to do them. In High School, they had Novell installed on all their computers. Each computer had an H:\ (Networked Drive) where students could store their work on the server. They had access to H:\ from every computer in the school, but they could only see and edit their files though every student could see and use the drive. Can I do something like this just using the OS? Also, how do I change the rights of all the users using group policy from the server level?
Here are the specs:
22 Clients:
Core 2 DUO - 1.8 GHz
2GB RAM
Windows Vista Ultimate
Gigabit Ethernet
2 Servers:
Pentium D - 3.0 GHz
1GB RAM
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Gigabit Ethernet
* The backup server has a tape drive and the main server has dual Network Interface Cards.1. I don't understand the part with "administrator of the entire school has a proxy setup". Which administrator? The network administrator installed a proxy on one server and everyone that wants internet access should use the proxy? In that case he made a network map, and each subnetwork has it's own address. Also, routing is enabled between school's routers, I suppose each ROUTER knows about the other parts of network in that school. If you don't want to affect "the big picture" you will have to talk with school's network administrator.
Anyway, if you want to setup ICS it is very simple. You may use ICS on a network that uses static IP addresses, but you will have a few problems:
- DNS servers - I never managed to setup properly ICs, so that the clients would use as DNS server the server, that means 192.168.0.1
- I always had to assign static IPs to the clients (in the 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254 interval), and I had to manually specify DNS address and gateway address; in the Microsoft documentation it is said that it should work smoothly without human intervention, but guess what? They lie I have never been able to obtain what they say. But maybe I was doing something WRONG.
2. mapped network drive - create a share for each student (in a script, when the account is created the script is executed => the folder is automatically made; also, you may need a script that it is USED when someone log's in, in which you will place the commands to create the network mapping.
3. You need a book. I need a book. Experience comes with reading and exercising. I could only guess what you have in mind. But we (me and you) don't have that time.
Quote I don't understand the part with "administrator of the entire school has a proxy setup". Which administrator? The network administrator installed a proxy on one server and everyone that wants internet access should use the proxy? In that case he made a network map, and each subnetwork has it's own address. Also, routing is enabled between school's routers, I suppose each router knows about the other parts of network in that school. If you don't want to affect "the big picture" you will have to talk with school's network administrator.
The IT guy hired by the school has a network which has Internet access. Our network is seperate and doesn't have Internet access. I want to connect our classroom network to his network and have user accounts plus Internet access. To access the Internet on his network we have to type in "ttcmserver port 8080" into Internet Explorer's Connection Settings. I setup ICS said today, but I'm not sure how to do map the Network Drive.
I typed in:
echo off
net use z: "\\server2\C:\Shared CIT Folder"
into a login.bat file and I put it in windows/sysvol/sysvol/cit.local/scripts but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?1) The users have read access to the folder with the script? (I am not sure about that thing, better check what I am saying here about read acces) They have necessary rights to access that share?
2) The users can't access the C: specified by your script. The C: partition is on their harddisk, not on server harddisk; and definitely it's not a share. C: can be shared though, and you can find it shared as "administrative share" on many computers. If you want them to use a share (network map), you have to correctly specify the share. I suppose you want to say \\server2\c$\shared cit folder", but I have to WARN you about using ADMINISTRATIVE shares with REGULAR USER ACCOUNTS.
Administrative sharing = lot of responsability for you.
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