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Spid's Tue (8/26) Win2k Pro QoD
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| You are a network administrator for your company. The network is a single subnet.
You currently have a DNS server, a DHCP server, and a Windows 2000 DC/File Server on the subnet.
You add a new client computer to the network. When the user of this system tries to connect to the DC/File Server he gets an error message stating that "The network path was not found". Hmmmm.....
The image below shows the current TCP/IP configuration on the client system.
What you need to do is to configure this client so that the user can successfully connect to network resources by using host names.
What should you do?
A. Add an entry for each server in the client computer's LMHOSTS file.
B. Change the TCP/IP configuration setting on the client computer to obtain the DNS server address automatically.
C. On the client system, install the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
D. On the client system, go to a command prompt and run ipconfig /flushdns.
E. Configure the client with a static IP address, subnet mask and default gateway.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!! | |
| PoorboyTech 2003-08-26, 3:41 pm |
| guess here....B | |
| rnrkenzie 2003-08-26, 6:13 pm |
| I'll say | |
| blackwidow 2003-08-26, 8:16 pm |
| The question leaves room for assumptions and hence none of the answers is correct entirely.
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You currently have a DNS server, a DHCP server, and a Windows 2000 DC/File Server on the subnet.
So what does this mean? Has the DNS option been configured on the DHCP server to be given out. Are other computers on the subnet getting them correctly from the DHCP? Just because you a DHCP on the subnet does not mean it is configured to give out ALL the parameters. Question is incomplete in this regard.
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You add a new client computer to the network. When the user of this system tries to connect to the DC/File Server he gets an error message stating that "The network path was not found". Hmmmm.....
Did the DHCP even end up giving out the IP address, let alone the DNS address. Did the scope run out cos then 169.254.x.x APIPA address is being used on the client.
Based on this, answer B is forcing assumptions to be made. The only safest answer I can see here E, if not efficient in reality. But at least it does not force me to make any assumtions, because statically assigning IP and Subnet mask, combined with the setting in the exhibit at least has the potential of being successful.
Answer B may still not solve the problem due to my discussion above. | |
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| Yes the question may not be the best but I don't think it needs to get shreaded apart.
If client is configured for DHCP and a static entry for DNS is entered in, that will override the DNS scope option configured on the DHCP server. That was the jist of the question.
I guess I'll make sure I have every base covered next time. I probably should have posted some more info/screen shot to clarify exactly what was going on. I'll do that next time. 
Sorry for any confusion. | |
| Tahoon 2003-08-26, 10:00 pm |
| B | |
| blackwidow 2003-08-27, 2:03 am |
| Yup i was feeling bad myself when i was taking the question apart, but I struggle with this habit of reading questions carefully and eliminating answers based on some wording in the question. Hence I ended up eliminating B fairly quickly, especially when I did not even know if the DNS statically typed into the diagram was invalid or not.
Next time I shall try not to be that brutal  | |
| hairy51 2003-08-27, 4:20 am |
| if faced with this question in the exam, i would definately have gone for B | |
| cramersaunders 2003-08-27, 10:43 am |
| B | |
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Originally posted by Spid
You are a network administrator for your company. The network is a single subnet.
You currently have a DNS server, a DHCP server, and a Windows 2000 DC/File Server on the subnet.
You add a new client computer to the network. When the user of this system tries to connect to the DC/File Server he gets an error message stating that "The network path was not found". Hmmmm.....
The image below shows the current TCP/IP configuration on the client system.
What you need to do is to configure this client so that the user can successfully connect to network resources by using host names.
What should you do?
A. Add an entry for each server in the client computer's LMHOSTS file.
B. Change the TCP/IP configuration setting on the client computer to obtain the DNS server address automatically.
C. On the client system, install the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
D. On the client system, go to a command prompt and run ipconfig /flushdns.
E. Configure the client with a static IP address, subnet mask and default gateway.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!!
And the answer is...B
I should have added some more information to the question as blackwidow made some good observations. The idea was to get one to know that a static DNS address on the client will override the DHCP scope option for DNS.
Nice job everyone. |
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