A quick question guys.
I recently put a few firewalls in a customer premises with a static NAT policy. Internally the clients were 192.168.1.x but extrenally they were
135.1.1.x statically mapped one for one. DNS always worked ok since there were no servers on these sites - I accepted the limitaion that the machines cannot ping by machine name. This worked loads of times. I then had another site exactly like this but had a server as well as just client PC's. The clients could not get their drive mappings on this server until I clicked the DNS option against the static transation in the PDM. I understand and acknowledge this. BTW the DNS servers are on the central siteMy problem. On the windows 2003 server - I noticed that rather than seeing the client PC's by their global address (135.x.x.x)- they were seeing the inside local address (192.168.1.x) on the browser!! How can this possibly be? The inside local addresses are not known at all outside the PIX's inside interface. Clicking on the doctor DNS tab for each individual host makes no difference. It's almost like there is some protocl between the server and PC where the real IP address on the clinet is revealed.
Any clues or ideas guys? Steve