The N I Project - 20/05/2011

On my last blog update i had a bit of a nightmare with the cleint machine connecting up with the server, well today it is still doing it. No client machine is still not finding the domain of the server. So i reinstalled the services agian, this time naming it somthing different (just in case) and still no pinging to the server computer.

So i thought to my self, if the cleint machine cannot communicate at that low of a level in network it has to be the hardware in the computer, the cbaling or the switch. To test the cabling, i swpped over cble to the server for another network cable, this did not work. So I unplugged the network cable to the server and made the three cleint machines a peer to peer network, this work perfectly between each computer. This narrow it down alot to the server software (have i installed it correctly or are the driver for the network corrupt on the server machine) Once i have done that I had a meeting with the client to see if she can give any suggestions. Some of them were good suggestions which i will use on monday. So i left the server for a bit and started to do some research on why this is happeing, i will also do reasearch over the weekend ready for some action on monday.

Here is a picture of my gantt chart update

The next update will be on 25/05/2011