Caught by the banookies and need some help please!

[kieron]

Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
I've finally been exposed as the fraud that I really am and need your help to get this thing sorted.
 
Firstly some background.
 
We have just moved into our spanking new college after 14 years in the old mental institution building half a mile away. The Omagh C2k offices were just one floor above us which was nice and handy when we needed a quick response to some routine C2k problem.
 
We have purchased 132 new catalog workstations (mixture of Hi Spec, Low Spec and Laptops) for the new college and have been promised first install of the new refresh stations (87 stations) so we have them in time for september. Our old RM stations have been abandoned in the old building as it was decided it would be foolish to move them up only to have to take them away again.
In additon to the C2k infrastructure, we have a legacy network made up of 120 x Dell optplex USFF 755's, being served by 2 x dell poweredge 2900 DC's. Moving Image as 10 x G5 Macs and we also have a brand new Xserve (still in the box)
 
Because of our location just below C2k Offices we actually shared their fibre and broadband connection, this was never intended to be a long term solution as the funding for our new college was granted at it's inception 14 years ago - however through a number of factors and red tape it's taken this long for the building to be delivered.
 
Now, down to the nitty gritty :-
 
The new college building has a new fibre linking back to St louisa's college in belfast - as part of this install we received a new NTE box from BT and a new Cisco 1700 switch. As a result our IP address range has changed.
 
A guy from the HP server team spent 5 days last week changing the scope for DHCP on the C2k kit and now all of the C2k hardware is back online.
 
Now....I inherited the legacy network and I've never really had to perform much more than the usual routine tasks of adding network printers, deploying MSI's, changing a group policy etc. Now i'm in a position were I need to change the scope in DHCP, give the DC's new static IP's and make reservations for other hardware. Although I've done my background reading, i'm a little nervous about making the changes and I'm hoping some of you may be able to offer advice in terms of step by step instructions.
 
At this point i'm sturuggling to understand were I should be cabling my switches through in order to achieve the broadband connection.
 
In addition to all that I need to get this xserve on the network and serving out the the 10 macs in moving image - I have absolutely no MAC server knowledge at all.
 
Can any of you with experience in these area's give me a hand and point me in the righ direction?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
K
 
 

[Stephen]

In the setup of the xserve we cheated - we paid Scotsys (who we bought the xserve and raid from) for 2 days to come and set the server up. It was expensive but no bother to me!!

On the subject of setting your ip ranges for your legacy network you need to phone c2k and ask what range they have set for you legacy equipment, I think. Only one of the machines will be a DHCP server, if you go to the command prompt and type ipconfig the default gateway is the DHCP server (check this).

To connect legacy to the internet just connect a switch to the spare port on the c2k router.

[Telone]

Setting the the legacy PCs you need to know the DNS addresses that C2k apply to your school. Insert these two addresses on the legacy PCs using, open network connections, properties internet protocol, properties put the ip address of the main server that the PCs are logging on to first then the two DNS addresses that C2k supply in the alternative boxes click advanced to open up another box.
 
You can try to get the DNS addresses out to the PCs using DHCP but I found that does not work all the time so you might have to install it individually
 
That will let the PCs log on to the main server and connect to the C2k network use Proxy4 as authentication is such a pain it slows everthing down.
 
If you need anything else PM me

[kieron]

Thanks for the response lads.
 
According to existing DNS entry on the server and after speaking to C2k/Northgate there is no change - DHCP has been happily providing the same DNS info out to the PC's for the last few years. I changed the router IP to point to the new address of 10.185.216.1. I'm assuming that as it is still in the same subnet, that should be all the changes I need.
 
Oh, and I have cabled from the 10m card on the router to my switch.
 
The workstations are telling me that they have established the connection to our server and have been provided with the correct default gateway address but i'm getting no traffic from the web.
 
Proxy4 has been set with port 8080. I was able to use the same settings on the Mac's to sort out updates in te old college.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
K

[Stephen]

When you do updates on the macs you can save the updates (it is one of the options). So install and save then find the updates, copy them to usb and manually apply them to the other macs could save time.