SBS 2003

[n3il123]

Hi

I am just in the process of setting up a MS SBS server... now its all going ok until I try and get a pc to log onto the domain that I have created.

I am assuming that the domain is "myco" where it shows as myco.local in server management.

However when I go to system properties, network identification, network id, properties, and enter the computer and domain name it fails because the "specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted"

The client PC is win2k

I can ping the server from the client and back again

I have added the client computer name to the client computers list

Erm please help!

[mattley]

it's myco.local

[n3il123]

I have tried adding "myco.local" as the domain too... its confusing now

[griffgrog]

Check that the client PC's DNS server settings are pointing to your SBS server. Best to use DHCP.

[n3il123]

griffgrog said:

Check that the client PC's DNS server settings are pointing to your SBS server. Best to use DHCP.

Thanks I changed the dns server in the network and it straight away picked up the domain... I think it may be something to do with having my broadband router dishing out the IP's ...

[shocker-z]

n3il123 said:

griffgrog said:

Check that the client PC's DNS server settings are pointing to your SBS server. Best to use DHCP.

Thanks I changed the dns server in the network and it straight away picked up the domain... I think it may be something to do with having my broadband router dishing out the IP's ...

Yep that will be the issue, best practice is to turn off DHCP on router and use DHCP from SBS. saying that i did install SBS on vmware on my linux box and didnt change the DHCP/DNs settings and it picked up the domain fine..


Liam

[n3il123]

thanks for the advice now I am trying to configure the exchange part.... I can recieve mails to a newly created user fine but I can't seem to send any..

They just get returned back with the error message "The following recipient could not be reached "lalalala" the e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to" la la la ...

I am able to send messages from my outlook 2003 through the same domain... so I am guessing that it is just me being dumb somewhere in the configuration..

AS always an help, suggestions greatfully recieved

N3

[mattley]

ah... you may have a huge flaw here with potential security issues.

or maybe not depending on how you plan to use the server.

You should really have two network cards in your SBS server. One serving the external connection - ie internet, one internal - your PC's. If you have SBS premium you should be running ISA server, even if you aren't SBs has pretty good security built in if you use this model. It also guaruntees thet all you workstations are governed by your server security settings.

If, as it sound like you are, all your PCs are connected directly to your router, you're bypassing your server from PCs to internet. This isn't critical providing you have a tight desktop policy, but isn't the best way of doing it.

[n3il123]

Thanks for that ... it hadn't really crossed my mind ... although this is really just a text/ play thing at the moment... so no "real" users.

I am still having problems sending e-mails via the internet though, I can recieve them all ok however when I reply I nothing appears to happen (email is not recieved and there don't appear to be any error messages anywhere) can anyone give me any pointers as to where to look? is there an application that I can use to test connectivity to the isp mail server? so that I can check all that is ok?

I am a bit stumped!

Thanks in advance

N3

[malman]

Have you run through the internet connection wizard on the todo list? This basically asks you how you wnat your mail etc setup and it usually gets it rght if you give it the correct answers.


if you want to test outbound mail from your sbs console to your isp then

telnet isp.smtp.server.com 25 and enter the correct details for the mail transfer as outlined here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/32335

make sure you use the correct domain names and mail addresses to make sure the test is valid. If you make any typos then backspace doesn't work so go slow and type correctly.