Re: Best way to connect via wireless in new SBS install?

I do apologies for my late reply, my net connection(DSL) has had some dataflow issues and i have had no access to internet.

GeordieB wrote:
Thanks much Chris! That's some good info, but I have a couple of follow-up questions:
1) Is there only one NIC in your server? It sounds like that is the case, but I want to be sure.

There are two NIC's in the server but im only using 1.

2) How do the wi-fi laptops connect to the wireless AP? Is that due to setting the secondary DNS to point to the Router? I guess I'm not quite understanding how the wifi laptop connects to the wireless AP in the first place, if the AP is not setup to give it an IP address (since SBS is now the DHCP server).

3) So the laptops are *not* part of the internal network? (only having basic internet access?). Ultimately, I'd like to have the wireless laptops connect to SBS somehow. Perhaps using Remote Web Access? I know there are different methods to do this, just unsure of which one will be most convenient.

I have a 8port switch which has all the 6 physical LAN points in the office, but there are 2ports which connect the Server and then the Router/AP to the switch. Because the DHCP server is turned off, the AP simply passes through any DHCP packets through to the router, then onto the switch which then finds the SBS server then hands a IP back to the laptop.

I have setup the office network using AD(active directory or otherwise known as a WINDOWS DOMAIN), the laptops that are perminatly used within the office are joined to the domain so they always have access to the SBS Server when loged into using a user/pass combination from the AD. Any additional laptops are able to come in a use the wireless but they only have access to the internet because they are not apart of the WINDOWS DOMAIN.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards
Chris Lawson


Thanks again,
Geordie

"Chris Lawson" wrote:


I have just setup someline very similar for a client of mine.

1. Windows 2003 SBS
2. Two Desktop Clients(cat5)
3. Two Laptops(wifi)
4. A Netcomm NB5580W

So far, the way i have done the setup is turning the DHCP server off the
NB5580, and setup DHCP on the server. My reasons behind doing this was:

1. Creater control over the VPN access (thought the DHCP)
2. Better setup for DNS(able to set internal and external servers for
relivant traffic routing)

This is a rought setup of the IP setup for the client.

IP Range: 192.168.0.0/24
Static IP Range - 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.10(use for printers, routers
etc....)
Dynamic IP Range - 192.168.0.11 - 192.168.0.254(use for desktops and
laptops)

The server is 192.168.0.1
The router is 192.168.0.5(a reservation IP is set in the DHCP Server to make
sure nothing else gets this IP)

In the DHCP Server config i have told it to assign all connected PC's to use
192.168.0.5 as the default router. The Primary DNS server is the win2k3
machine(192.168.0.1, this means that all local internal network traffic
stays local), the secondary is the router(most routers these days have DNS
Proxy which passes on all DNS traffic to the ISP that its connected with
provided they auto-assign DNS Servers to there connected clients).

Any laptops that come into the office and use the wireless they are still on
a restricted access to the network soley because they need have have
user/pass to get access to any of the desktops, laptops or server. all they
have is basic access to the internet(and thats all they need).

I hope this helps with some of your questions.

If you want any further information, please feel free to let me know.

Kind Regards
Chris Lawson
IT Service and Consulting


"GeordieB" <GeordieB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:90ACC8F5-F030-4E16-9C73-DB9F67F02E58@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

After perusing these boards, I've seen so much great info, thought I'd 

throw

this out. I'm installing SBS 2003 on my network. 4 clients (2 desktops via
Cat5, plus 2 laptops connecting via 802.11b/g) in an existing peer to peer
network. My new server has one NIC, and I was going to use my Linksys


WRT54G

Router/AP for DHCP. However, I've seen so many posts suggesting using SBS 

for

DHCP.

Question: What's the best way to be able to connect to the SBS network 

from

my wireless laptop? If I understand what I've been reading here, I want my
wireless connection to connect to the 'internal' SBS network (if my router
does the DHCP, my wireless laptop would end up in a 'perimeter' network?).
Mainly, I want to be able to keep Outlook 2003 sync'd between my home


office

desktop computer and my laptop, as well as document sharing.

I'm planning to install SBS a few times to learn the process, so adding
another NIC or changing some major setting is no problem. I'd like to go


live

later this week, but want to do it right. Also, if I put my Router inside 

the

network, would its builtin firewall be basically useless at that point 

(being

that SBS would have the firewall between my ISP and the network?). Am I 

even

making any sense???

Thanks for all your help,
Geordie





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Chris Lawson
Senior Technical Director
IT Service and Consulting
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