General Questions

Hello
I have the following network setup. I have a m0n0wall connected to 2 networks LAN and OPT1. LAN is the private network with Server 2003 Active Directory for all the office pc’s and OPT1 is connected to Wireless AP’s with Captive Portal for free wireless internet. This setup works great except I need to connect a laptop wirelessly to the system to access the LAN Active Directory. How do I block all pcs except certain pc’s to the LAN. I have figured out how to get the DHCP to give a static ip to the laptop but I cannot access the Active Directory on the Server 2003. I set a rule to let the ip of the laptop access to LAN (any) this did not work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I assume that you can ping the DC from the Wireless network.  It is probably a DNS issue.  How is your DNS setup? Assuming that you are using the DNS forwarder on the Opt 1 interface for the wireless clients, and that you have a Windows DNS server for your domain, I would add an entry in the DNS forwarder for an authoritative DNS server for your internal domain. That should hopefully sort your problem out.