Re: Ok I'm new to SBS - help!
- From: "CO-DBA-SC-EL" <dx6490@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:10:14 -0800
I beg to differ. The CEICW works quite well if the DHCP is in the router and is not the SBS. This is one of the documented configurations (single NIC configuration), and the CEICW wizard "knows" that configuration. There are however a few gotchas which are not obvious to someone who does not understand how DNS forwarding works. It also requires configuring the router carefully, which is not necessarily easy. Considering the questions Jim is asking, he's not quite up to speed on that stuff, so the single NIC option may not be the best. He's also between a rock and a hard place. Doing the usual 2-NIC SBS configuration will definitely be easier for him, because the DHCP server in the ASDL modem/router/etc. can still stay on and won't hurt anything. The downside is that then he's got to give up on using the built-in wireless. He can probably keep the wireless with the single NIC configuration, but the all-in-one ADSL modem/router/nat/dhcp server may not lend itself too easily to be configured correctly for this. All in all, I would recommend to go go for the 2 NIC configuration. Leave the ADSL modem/router/etc. pretty much alone except for shutting down the wireless and forwarding the necessary ports. The SBS Internet side (WAN) NIC should be given a static IP address in the subnet of the LAN side of the ADSL/modem/router/etc., and the gateway should be the ADSL/modem/router -- just follow the wizard. Then, for wireless, get an access point or a wireless router (sometimes less expensive than an access point, but configurable as an access point) and connect it to the LAN side of the SBS. If using a wireless router, its DHCP will have to be disabled and a couple other things done to use it as access point. Instructions on how to do that can be found at http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/11233.
So, the recommended config would go like this:
ASDL modem (modem's LAN)-- SBS NIC #1 (inernet side) -- SBS NIC #2 (SBS LAN) -- switch -- wireless access point.
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"KKI Technologies" <sbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5E40205B-B4A8-4338-9319-0D4310671681@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In order for the wizards to work (such as the EICW) properly the SBS box
needs to be the only DHCP server in the network. It should also be the DNS
Server and you set it up to forward to your ISP DNS.
As far as whether your wi-fi router and clients will work without the router
DHCP server is going to depend on the router manufacturer. I would check
with the manufacturer.
--
Jonathan Filson
KKI Technologies
Small Business Specialist
"bitsnpcs" wrote:
Ok...I'm new to SBS server so bare with me.
I have my Action Pack. I have installed SBS 2003 on a AMD 64 machine and I
have just discovered that I need to get a static IP address. Ok that's
fine...will do - so do I also have to register myself a domain name to use on
this static IP - and if I do that will Internet connection wizard work(coz it
won't just at the moment?)
Also....the ADSL modem/router I have is a WiFi type and has its own DHCP
server apparently this is needed so that the Wifi adaptors on the client
machines will work - SBS 2003 seemed unhappy with this arrangement on
installation as it only supports 1 DHCP server and would apparently it would
prefer to use it's own DHCP server. I elected to have it use the router's
DHCP coz maybe my Wifi network won't work without it is that right? - If not
- how do you work SBS 2003 so that it will support a Wifi network?
Jim
Bitsnpcs
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