Windows 2000 Wireless & Server 2K3

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I'm still running windows 2000 Pro edt (SP4) at my place all wired to the server (win 2003) local domain. All works well but I need to get a station in a temp location and it's not worth wiring in a new port so i'm using a wireless card.

The Win2K machine can connect to the router but can't get it logon to the domain or even the internet (which seemed odd too). Got it working straight away with an XP pro latop.

The user accounts on the machine already - we use folder redirection not roaming profiles.
Use DHCP.

Has anybody actually managed to do this before? - i've gone through so many guides that seem over complex. Guessing it's not as easy as in XP.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Adam

 

Thanks Jim,
That was actually one of the one's i tried out. I could log the user on ok but only showing offline files. When i go to syncronise/reconnect to the server it wants dial up information...

 

Thats right, gave the user access to dial in through AD. Went back log them in again and could log on (offline files only) and when i tried to sync/reconnect to the server it asked for dial-up information. tired there normal user credentials which didn't work.

Also gave the comuter access via dial-in also.

Cheers
Adam

 

No, not setup a VPN, just looking to connect over the LAN. It's really got me stumped this afternoon. I'm beginning to think it doesn't (easily) support loging on via a wireless connection...

 

The USB Dongle is by a company called ADDON (was cheap), but it basically runs a realtek driver/utility, i'd always use the Windows Zero config, unfortuantly 2000 doesn't have that.

I thought that might be the issue, although once logged in (local profile) and the wireless is established I still can't access any network resources i.e. find the server, run a mapped drive .bat file etc

 

I didn't try that to be honest. I'll give that a go in the morning and see if returns anything, going to bet it doesn't though. It wouldn't even let me on the internet, use dhcp, but even manually setting the default gateway and giving it an IP address didn't help either.

 

I know it's probably not what you are looking for, but as soon as I read your OP I was thinking ... powerline adapters ... They are pretty cheap these days and work very well.

You'll probably learn much more troubleshooting this issue though.

 

I still get a 192.168 IP with DHCP enabled.

Those powerline adapters have always intrested me, never use them. Probably not the solution I was planning on using.

I managed to place her station with somebody how was off today so that was ok. Think i'm just going to give up (on this occasion) and stick XP Pro on it since we have a mix of OPs here.

Here's a questions though, Need to upgrade our place (about 30 machines). Was going to go with XP Pro even though it's due to retire in a few years - never got on with Vista. Anybody think it's a waste of time? Half our machine would struggle to run vista well thats the only issue. Thinking of the extra money it would cost.

 

We just set up a new suite of PC's in the last few days and put XP Pro on all of them. Given the extra hardware resources Vista would need on your PC's, XP Pro would be a sensible choice at the moment I think.

Obviously there are a number of factors, like if you intended to upgrade the PC's soon anyway. Windows 7 would probably run much better (resource wise) but won't be available until September at the earliest (to VLK customers) and October to everyone else.

 

No, No luck pinging the server or anything else on the network.

I'm not convinced it works, haven't found anything on the web that truly convinces me that it does. Got it run on XP Pro now and works seamlessly.


Cheers for all the help though guys!

 

Yes absolutely, connects the router no problem. But thats it...