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I hope I can explain this correctly.
BACKGROUND:
My office has a local network. We use a windows server 2003(small business server i think) computer to handle our domain.
So all of our employees computers are members of the domain.
We can ping them all. NSLOOKUP of the PC name works. NSLOOKUP of the ipaddress works (i had the reverse pointer records created)
On the server computer, we can open up the DHCP tool and see all the computers.
On the server computer, we can open up the DNS tool and see all the computers.
That all works fine.
However, we bring a few devices onto the network that are NOT part of the domain. (Some windowsCE and linux PCs) These computers are just part of workgroups. Now generally, things work fine. However you can ping these PCs, but not use NSLOOPUP on any of them (name OR ip).
When we open up the DHCP and DNS snapins on the server computer, ONLY the domain computers (active directory computers) show up in the dns and dhcp. The non-domain computers ONLY show up in the dhcp.
This seems to cause a lot of problems in terms of propagation and correcting of info on the employee PCs. It falls down to using the WINS control and netbios over tcp i think. Leaving entries cached in funny places (nbtstat, ARP, etc) and not getting the correct entries.
QUESTION:
Is there anyway to get the DHCP and DNS server instances on the server computer to "sync" so to speak? So that the computers that are not part of the domain/active directory will be available via the dns server.
Specifically, I am looking for something that can be done on the server computer to correct this. Although, if someone knows the settings to change on windowsCE or CoLinux, I would happily take any advice on that as well.
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