Re: Initial setup offsite?

Various gateway router manufacturers use different terminoligy, but
basically you're looking for port forwarding or 'server publishing'. If your
SBS external nic is at 192.168.0.3 (static), then you forward the ports you
want from the public side of the router to that IP. You may need to set an
exclusion in the router DHCP for that IP.

Some common SBS ports.

25 - smtp
80 - http
1723 - PPTP VPN
443 - SSL (for OWA and RWW)
444 - Companyweb
3389 - TS
4125 - RDP proxy - for connecting to desktop/server via RWW.

If you don't have a fixed public IP, or a FQDN, and/or a dynamic DNS
service - then you have to pay attention to whatever the public IP is at the
time you want to test remote connectivity - a static ip or equivalent
certainly allows you to test more stuff, and more easily.

With two nics though, you don't really have to be on the wild side to test
remote connectivity - you can do it from a workstation on the same subnet as
the sbs external nic (and the router lan side). You simply run the CEICW,
making the appropriate selections for services you want to make available to
external users, and then connect via the ip of the SBS external nic.



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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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"Dave" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sJudnUypqtAbahHenZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Les, how would I go about setting that up? I see I have a port forwarding
> section in my Netgear router setup, but which port would I forward and to
> where? There is a also a "Server IP Address 192.168.1.__" section. I'm
> assuming I'd specify the ip of the external NIC there?
>
> - Dave
>
> "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message news:%23P%23UshH9FHA.808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hey Dave,
>>
>> Two nics in the SBS handles this nicely. You're doing great!. By
>> specifying a static ip on the external nic, you can actually test the
>> remote connectivity by port forwarding in your router.
>>
>
>


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