Re: Fresh sbs install needed?

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"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> SuperGumby,
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> Did I misread the original post? First, he says that "Our internet (Linux
> based) domain name matches our sbs server domain name" but then clarifies
> that "On the web we are: DomainName.net. The sbs server domain is called:
> DomainName.local" which to me shows that the Internet FQDN and internal
> domains are indeed named differently as they should be.
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> Nick, as long as the internal domain name is not EXACTLY the same as your
> Internet FQDN, you should be fine. What I mean by that is the domain name
> and suffix should NOT match between your Internet name and local name, nor
> do they match, according to what you said ("On the web we are:
> DomainName.net. The sbs server domain is called: DomainName.local.")
>
> For example, your Internet FQDN could be abc-company.net and your internal
> name could be abc-company.local (which is what you said) or
> abc-company.internal or abc-company.lan or abc-company.bubba if you wanted
> it to be. It is the internal domain suffix that should be different from
> the Internet FQDN suffix. I never set up an internal domain using the
> .local suffix, since as SuperGumby stated, it can cause problems with Macs
> on the local network. Your internal name could be
> xyz123.any-stinkin-name-I-want if you desired to get very strange. The
> idea is to keep Internet FQDN which includes the suffix different from the
> LAN name, especially the suffix.
>
> Nick, when you ask "To access rww, shouldn't I have named the sbs domain:
> SubdomainName.DomainName.net?" the answer is no, you should not have.
> Whether or not your Internet domain and SBS domains are both at the same
> location (it sounds as though you run your web server locally and not at
> an ISP), what you can do is create a public DNS record and point it to the
> IP of your SBS server's WAN NIC (or preferably the WAN firewall for the
> SBS external NIC). Even if your web site is hosted at an ISP, you could
> create a DNS record called remote.DomainName.net and point it to your SBS
> server's WAN IP address.
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> Gregg Hill
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> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I am probably the most RABID proponent of 'you stuffed up and named your
>>AD DNS the same as your internet FQDN' however not even I would call it
>>the basis for a reinstall.
>>
>> You should have named your AD DNS whatever.something_private, .lan is my
>> preference because Mac OS and some versions of Linux have started
>> treating .local (as advised by the installation wizard) in a special
>> manner. There is _no reason_ for your AD DNS name to reflect your public
>> namespace.
>>
>> I will go so far as to say that _IF THIS IS A NEW INSTALL AND YOU ARE NOT
>> YET TOO COMMITTED_ it is worth rectifying. With three attached ws's I'd
>> probably do it.
>>
>> "Nick" <nickmirro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eqAaXH9mFHA.3336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Our internet (Linux based) domain name matches our sbs server domain
>>> name. : - ( On the web we are: DomainName.net. The sbs server domain
>>> is called: DomainName.local. To access rww, shouldn't I have named the
>>> sbs domain: SubdomainName.DomainName.net?
>>>
>>> To get rww working do I need to completely reinstall sbs with naming as
>>> described?
>>>
>>>
>>> There are 3 machines added to the sbs domain by the web based utility.
>>> Should they be removed from (invalid?) domain? Will I be stuck with
>>> obsolete domain client logon options if I reinstall sbs?
>>>
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