Re: First Grade Basics Needed

From: Dirk-Thomas Brown (youhadtoask_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:59:35 -0800

And here is a good resource for you to go through before you put this thing
into production...

http://www.smallbizserver.net/

Dirk-Thomas

"rju" <rju166-mail@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> We've purchased a Dell server for our small law office, 8 users, Standard
> SBS, I'm the guy who will set it up and maintain it.
>
> I took it home and played around with it. I feel I can follow the Wizards.
> I
> can read all the books I have. However, I feel I need more of the very
> simple BASIC information, which seems VERY hard to find, either online or
> in
> books. Even the books for dummies.
>
> I figured out the server doesn't need logging in--you just hit the button
> and it starts up the services. Then you attach the workstations. Great. I
> just wish someone had told me this, because I wasted a day and a half on
> this!
>
> Apparently, SBS doesn't work well with my home dial up--it doesn't share.
> Apparently, (I could be wrong) ICS only shows up for dial up when there
> are
> TWO networks cards in the machine. This is a minor point, because we'll be
> using DSL in the office. But again I wish someone had told me this.
>
> Now I'm trying to figure out logins for workstations. You log in with your
> full name: Guy@ourplace.lan. You get into your account. Fine. But what do
> you do when the server is down? I thought at first you log into it through
> the Netbios name. Is this right? Is that what the name is for? I know I
> can
> log in locally, but does not get me into my domain account, where all my
> stuff is. How does this work with laptops?
>
> Now that the server is back in the office, when I logged in though netBIOS
> (at home, with a machine no longer connected to the server), it created a
> new account, instead of putting me into the user account I expected to be
> in. Where is my original account? I need to be sure that my users can work
> on their computers at all times, even if the server is down. I don't want
> to
> straighten out my home computer, I want to know what to tell my users to
> do
> in the event of problems.
>
> I would really like to know if is there some resource for information that
> I
> can tell my users? What they can expect, what they should do in case of
> problems, etc?
>
> I know these are very basic questions, but the price of these things are
> coming down and you are going to get more and more of theese questions.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>