Re: Inherited SBS 2003 Prem - Cohabit on phyical LAN with another SBS 2003 Prem Domain?

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Hi Alan,

How do you plan to isolate the two SBS servers using single NICs and a
common router/firewall? One of the SBS servers will shut down when it
detects the other. That's why I suggested dual NICs in each (which will
isolate the servers).

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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You could put two NICs in each SBS server, then attach them to a common
router, and run them as separate domains.

However, the problem may be forwarding the ports used by the services
that both domains may require (email, RWW, OWA, VPN, etc. | ports 25,
443, 1723, 4125, etc.). I believe 4125 can be changed this in the
registry of the server to a different port, and Exchange (port 25) can be
setup to use an alternate port. But 1723, 443 and other ports are
"hard-coded" and can only be forwarded to a one IP.

There are routers that allow dual Internet access and may be useful
(albeit that means another broadband account).

Internet
|
Router --- SBS2 External NIC = SBS2 Internal NIC - Switch - Domain2
Workstations
|
SBS1 External NIC
||
SBS1 Internal NIC
|
Switch
| | | |
Domain1 Workstations



Hi Merv,

I hadn't considered the port forwarding issue.

Both servers are currently in single NIC configuration.

It appears that the new server actually uses POP3 (!) to collect email so
that is not an issue.

We only have 25 and 1723 open on the firewall to our existing SBS, so that
just leaves 1723. If they are using RDP then problem solved, since we do
not allow a direct RDP session through the firewall (has to tunnel inside
a VPN and that can only connect to our Win Server 2003 TS machine). I
could port forward 4125 to their server to probably any internal IP in
their subnet.

Thanks,

Alan.

PS: I have another interesting issue on this new SBS 2003 Prem box, but
I'll start another thread for that!
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