Mike McCall
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So, after completing a network rebuild you can read about here:
https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/unable-to-join-domain.63430/
things have been working fine...until recently. I didn't like the fact that my entire office connected through an unmanaged switch to a port on a managed switch directly behind the router. So, since I have a second managed switch I replaced the unmanaged switch in the office with a managed one a month or so ago. Since both the main switch (Meraki) and the secondary switch (Netgear) are auto sensing I didn't use a crossover cable. The network is flat.
Everything seemed to work fine until my wife discovered a problem just the other day. Now her ability to connect to the NAS behind the second switch is sporadically broken. That seems to change by the moment. Her PC is wired directly to a port on the main switch. No connection problems noted prior to just a few days ago.
So, what changed, right? Well, I've been running Zoho for awhile now without issue internally or externally. Having recently read about SplashTop I decided to take advantage of their free offering for up to 10 devices on an internal network just to check out the product. I have the viewer installed on my office PC, and a client installed on my server downstairs, and on my wife's PC - the one I'm having problems with. About the same time I start seeing via the SplashTop viewer that the wife's host is sporadically on a different network preventing me from connecting to it (because SplashTop limits this freebie to a single internal network.). Zoho still connects to all devices properly. Ok, so maybe the two products don't play well together? Maybe, but there's more.
I discovered an oddity in the wired connections of my office PC, wife's PC, and server. (Note that both of these PC's are Win 10 Home and unable to join a domain.) The server says it's connected to: Ad.Dork-SCS.com (fine), office PC to: SCS (also fine), but the wife's PC says it's connected to: Shamrockaudio (not fine). Shamrock Audio was my loudspeaker company which I closed in 2004. The only device that may date back that far is my WNDR3400v2 router. Today all it provides is NAT translation, even WIFI is turned off, though the SSID (not broadcast) is Shamrock. Oddly, her PC can still see my PC behind the second switch in the office, but not the NAS behind the same switch.
I looked at DHCP on the server and noted that a few devices with static ip's in the .1 - .10 range had leases in the .12 - .20 range. I deleted those and noted that I should have left more room for expansion in my ip scheme, though all ip addresses are accounted for and where they should be. That's an issue I can soon address in an upcoming addressing rework.
I may have an equipment upgrade coming soon so a complete network rebuild is on the not-too-distant horizon. I would like to figure this out so whatever mistake I made doesn't get repeated.
https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/unable-to-join-domain.63430/
things have been working fine...until recently. I didn't like the fact that my entire office connected through an unmanaged switch to a port on a managed switch directly behind the router. So, since I have a second managed switch I replaced the unmanaged switch in the office with a managed one a month or so ago. Since both the main switch (Meraki) and the secondary switch (Netgear) are auto sensing I didn't use a crossover cable. The network is flat.
Everything seemed to work fine until my wife discovered a problem just the other day. Now her ability to connect to the NAS behind the second switch is sporadically broken. That seems to change by the moment. Her PC is wired directly to a port on the main switch. No connection problems noted prior to just a few days ago.
So, what changed, right? Well, I've been running Zoho for awhile now without issue internally or externally. Having recently read about SplashTop I decided to take advantage of their free offering for up to 10 devices on an internal network just to check out the product. I have the viewer installed on my office PC, and a client installed on my server downstairs, and on my wife's PC - the one I'm having problems with. About the same time I start seeing via the SplashTop viewer that the wife's host is sporadically on a different network preventing me from connecting to it (because SplashTop limits this freebie to a single internal network.). Zoho still connects to all devices properly. Ok, so maybe the two products don't play well together? Maybe, but there's more.
I discovered an oddity in the wired connections of my office PC, wife's PC, and server. (Note that both of these PC's are Win 10 Home and unable to join a domain.) The server says it's connected to: Ad.Dork-SCS.com (fine), office PC to: SCS (also fine), but the wife's PC says it's connected to: Shamrockaudio (not fine). Shamrock Audio was my loudspeaker company which I closed in 2004. The only device that may date back that far is my WNDR3400v2 router. Today all it provides is NAT translation, even WIFI is turned off, though the SSID (not broadcast) is Shamrock. Oddly, her PC can still see my PC behind the second switch in the office, but not the NAS behind the same switch.
I looked at DHCP on the server and noted that a few devices with static ip's in the .1 - .10 range had leases in the .12 - .20 range. I deleted those and noted that I should have left more room for expansion in my ip scheme, though all ip addresses are accounted for and where they should be. That's an issue I can soon address in an upcoming addressing rework.
I may have an equipment upgrade coming soon so a complete network rebuild is on the not-too-distant horizon. I would like to figure this out so whatever mistake I made doesn't get repeated.
