Ok all is in working order now what I did was point the primary dns address
of the server to it's own ip but left the external dns as the mail server
cannot send mail unless I use the external dns. Then I modified dhcp to
update cleint's dns to use server as primary dns and also left other dns
entries in place. This has solved all my issue's for now.

Thank you very much.

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

>
>
> I see one problem for sure and two possible, read inline.
>
> Aaron (ireland) wrote:
> >
> > I have been trying to troubleshoot this issue for sometime now. I
> > have SBS 2003 as PDC, AD, DHCP, and Exchange. Problem Client is
> > Windows xp and hardware is Dell and in good working order.
> >
> > The symptoms are at the clients accessing files shares and outlook
> > crashing and group policies not updating etc.... I have checked dns
> > and appears to be fine. Errors received at the client side are 1053
> > and 1054. I can not resolve computername.domainname.local from the
> > clients.
> >
> > IP Config of Server;
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Servername
> > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : domain.local
> > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> > DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : domain.local
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Server Local Area Connection:
> >
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network
> > Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-43-10-F8-22
> > DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
> > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.90
> > Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
>
> Being SBS this would be a Domain Controller, and DNS is required for Active
> Directory domains. I don't see a DNS address listed in TCP/IP enter this
> server's own address 10.0.0.0 for DNS, run these commands. ipconfig
> /flushdns, ipconfig /registerdns, net stop netlogon and net start netlogon.
>
> >
> > IP Config of Client;
> >
> > Windows IP Configuration
> >
> > Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ict-admin
> > Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : domain.local
> > Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
> > IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> > WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> > DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : doamin.local
> > domain.local
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
> >
> > Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> > 2200BG Networ
> > Connection
> > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0E-35-AA-BD-23
> >
> > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
> >
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : doamin.local
> > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 570x Gigabit
> > Integrated Co
> > troller
> > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-43-3A-A0-8D
> > Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.21
> > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
> > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.90
> > DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
> > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<<<External DNS
> >
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<<<External DNS
>
> The client has a problem for sure, remove the two external DNS addresses and
> enter the SBS IP for DNS, 10.0.0.1 and run ipconfig /flushdns.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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