Re: Domain names

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One more thing. If you plan to have Mac's on your network in the future.
You can save yourself a whole lot of trouble, if you change that .local
extension when you install the server, to .lan (.LAN)

Because .local is also used on Apple computers to reference the local apple
machine, and to get around this it is a headache, we always go with .lan as
the suffix.

Cheers!
Jamie Nelson
http://www.getithere.co.nz


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Dabbler,

In that case, I'd consider reinstalling with a very short domain name, 3
characters is nice ;-).

This is you internal (private) domain, domain.local, and in no way gets
confused with any public domain names you may have.

So if I had a business called Jones Painting and Decorating, I might be
tempted to call the internal domain jonespaintinganddecorating.local, the
netbios name would be jonespaintinganddecorating. I might be tempted to
name my server jonespaintingserver, which would make my server fqdn
jonespaintingserver.jonespaintinganddecorating.local.

But after a short while, I'd get tired of typing in
http://jonespaintingserver/connectcomputer to join my computers, or
\\jonespaintingserver to access shares, or listing
jonespaintingserver.jonespaintinganddecorating.local as my smtp server.

Rethinking this, if I instead named my server SBS, my internal domain JPS,
and kept my extention .local ....

sbs.jps.local is as long as it can get :-). Over the life of the
installation, I'll appreciate this over and over again.

Besides all that, yes there is a character limit on netbios names, 13 I
think? But I don't remember exactly, because I never want to even approach
that length ;-).

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Dabbler" <Dabbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On SBS 2003 are mydomain and mydomain.local synonymous? When should you
use
which? I've noticed in some field, I think it was in My
Computer/Workgroup
setting the domain name we have is to long to fit with the .local suffix.

Thanks for any clarification.



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