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Thread ID: 57422	2005-05-02 06:04:00	Cannot PING Server	Stocky (8017)	Press F1

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351411	2005-05-27 15:45:00	I am having a very similar problem after making my Windows 2003 Server a Domain controller after installing Acive Directory. Not sure if AD install would cause another firewall to get enabled which would block 'ping' to this server by any other machine within the internal network. This Server can ping all the other machines just fine. Any help would be appreciated.	bestoption (8019)
351412	2005-05-28 04:38:00	Welcome to PF1. It is quite likely to be a changed security setting, or a modified list of running services. As for the details ... surely there's someone using this software. ;)	Graham L (2)
351413	2005-05-30 22:20:00	Yes, I am. My server is a domain controller using active directory (obviously). It has DNS, DHCP, WINS and all the standard stuff you would expect on a Server that is the only one in a small network. I also installed Microsoft's ISA server to provide proxy and firewalling capability. Bear in mind, this is a small network designed to simulate parts of the larger network I use at work, so I can become familiar with the various Microsoft products, experiment and troubleshoot. The issue I faced was the ISA server. It was installed in its default configuration and unfortunately that "blocked" several classes of network messages and required the correct configuration before things would work. The main issue was that the server (tagged as Local Host) was not recognised as being a member of the local network. It was, but who knows why, perhaps the local host overrides the local network settings. Basically, the configuration rules were set up based on the local network which did not seem to get applied to the local host for some reason. The fix was to include the local host in the rules that allowed pings, DNS etc. Once that was done - everything worked as normal.	Stocky (8017)
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