Re: First Grade Basics Needed

From: rju (rju166-mail_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:06:53 -0500

Thanks!

rju

"Dirk-Thomas Brown" <youhadtoask@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OPoRoil$EHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> And here is a good resource for you to go through before you put this
thing
> into production...
>
> http://www.smallbizserver.net/
>
> Dirk-Thomas
>
> "rju" <rju166-mail@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%235ThHFl$EHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>