Adding a Win2K member server

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From: Steve (nospam_at_nospam.lan)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:32:20 -0700

We have a Win2k server that we used to use as our office server. It was the
only server on that network. It has users setup with the same user names as
our new SBS2003 network. The server has a SharePoint site that my board of
directors and staff use on a daily basis from their homes and places of
business. The site is password protected.

I have setup an SBS2003 network and things are working very well. I'd like
to add the Win2k server to the SBS2003 network for a few reasons:

1. We would like to use it's hard drive space.
2. It is already setup as a Symantec Antivirus Server (currently I just
have the Symantec client software installed on my workstations and new
server)
3. We might want to host our public web site on it.

My office is setup like this: Currently I have a cable modem with a hub
attached. I have two routers attached to the hub. I have the external
network card on the SBS2003 server connected to one router and the one and
only network card in the Win2k server connected to the other router. Each
router has a static IP assigned to it and I use port forwarding on them. I
have purchased a package of 5 static IP addresses from my ISP. I purchased
SBS because it's easy to use and we have way too small of a staff (3) to
warrant a dedicated IT department. So, like many small originations, I'm it
and I don't have a whole lot of experience with servers. I can learn from
reading and can follow directions. So I'm looking for some advice or
articles on how to accomplish this. Once I accomplish adding it to the SBS
Domain I'm sure I'll have other questions regarding Domain registration and
IIS.

Extra Information that may or may not be useful:

Our public web site is hosted by our ISP www.companyname.org (we'd like to
host it here preferably on the SBS2003 server because of IIS6 and some
FrontPage 2003 features. If the advice from this group says security is a
huge risk then we would like to host it on the Win2k server using IIS5 and
some of the FrontPage 2002 extensions.)

We registered a new name (different than our web site) for our SBS2003
network so users can access the RWW by typing in the
https://company_initials.org/remote.

Our board of directors and staff type the IP address of the Win2k server
network to access the SharePoint site. (we'd like to improve this some how
with maybe just have them type http://compnayinitials.org to hit it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
Steve

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