Guest Brandon E. Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and the LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server is always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Guest Bill Grant Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless How does the machine get its network config? If both NICs get their config from DHCP there is not much you can do unless you have control of the DHCP server. (Incidently, why do you have both wired and wireless NICs in a server? Are they both getting IP addresses in the same IP subnet)? If you do the config manually, make sure that only the wireless NIC has a default gateway set. "Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:108F5D05-2541-4CE2-9AC1-AC07F7D99D71@microsoft.com... > Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and > the > LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server > is > always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the > lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be > greatly appreciated! > > Thanks!
Guest Brandon E. Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless No the Lan is on a different network which is just setup as local LAN to access and share files. The wireless is connected to a different network which is the internet. The server isn't setup as a DHCP. It's just acting right now as a storage server. The local LAN get's it's IP from the router that is setup as a DHCP. And the wireless from another network. "Bill Grant" wrote: > How does the machine get its network config? If both NICs get their config > from DHCP there is not much you can do unless you have control of the DHCP > server. (Incidently, why do you have both wired and wireless NICs in a > server? Are they both getting IP addresses in the same IP subnet)? > > If you do the config manually, make sure that only the wireless NIC has a > default gateway set. > > "Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:108F5D05-2541-4CE2-9AC1-AC07F7D99D71@microsoft.com... > > Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and > > the > > LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server > > is > > always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the > > lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be > > greatly appreciated! > > > > Thanks! > >
Guest Brandon E. Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 RE: Change priority of LAN and Wireless Ok I got it working. Thank you so much. It was the simplest thing. I just left the default gateway blank on the LAN leaving the ip address and subnet and left the wireless' default ip gateway and settings it was assigned. The server now gets the internet from the wireless and the LAN is just used for local connections. Thanks!!! "Brandon E." wrote: > Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and the > LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server is > always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the > lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be > greatly appreciated! > > Thanks!
Guest Justin Rich Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Re: Change priority of LAN and Wireless just as a little extra info.. if you open up the network connection list there is an Advanced menu, and if you select Advanced Settings you can change the connection priority. what you did with removing the default gateway is the best solution, but you can also change the device priority. Justin "Brandon E." <BrandonE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F2A3DBE8-6E3F-42AB-9825-1F4D9DDC4D3A@microsoft.com... > Ok I got it working. Thank you so much. It was the simplest thing. I just > left the default gateway blank on the LAN leaving the ip address and > subnet > and left the wireless' default ip gateway and settings it was assigned. > The > server now gets the internet from the wireless and the LAN is just used > for > local connections. > > Thanks!!! > > > "Brandon E." wrote: > >> Is there a way to have server 2003 use the wireless only for internet and >> the >> LAN for local network activity? I got them both connected but the server >> is >> always trying to use the LAN for internet but there is no internet on the >> lan. it's the wireless that has the internet. Any suggestions would be >> greatly appreciated! >> >> Thanks!
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