Re: NEWBIE : First test installation, help needed with IP confusio

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Thanks Cris - I'll print that out and report back tomorrow. I'm installing
Premium, though I'm fully intending working through the basic setup several
times to get comfortable with it all. I'm registered as a Microsoft Partner
and intend to get myself qualified as a Small Business Specialist. Given my
obvious lack of knowledge about networking protocols that's almost
embarrasing to admit. I have a lot more knowledge about the tools once
they're implemented, honest ! I just never had to get into the nuts and bolts
that's all. I'll get there !

I'm also using Harry Brelsford's "Best Practices" book, but figured I might
as well use my own IP addresses (his obviously wouldn't work for me).

Cheers

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Your config should look more like

Internet --ADSL Modem ---Router ---External NIC/Server/Internal
NIC ----Switch-----workstations

Turn off DHCP on the router
Assign the External NIC with a static IP to match the router range, Gateway
to be the router IP, DNS 192.168.16.2
Assign the Internal NIC with a Static IP to the default IP of 192.168.16.2,
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway BLANK, DNS 192.168.16.2

Configure the external side of the router with the IP, Subnet, Gateway, etc
from your ISP

Then re-run the CEICW and choose Direct Broadband connection from the first
drop down and go through the rest of the questions

Now you know why we suggest to install this 3 times prior to ever trying it
for someone else

Get this far and we'll go from there

And are you installing Standard or Premium (ISA)?
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"Mick Jennings" <MickJennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have SBS2003 installed on my test server, 2 network cards visible & ok.
However, I'm confused about how to get the server to see my router. If
someone could offer a few words of wisdom to clear away my lack of
experience
and understanding of the way IP addresses work, or point me at a great and
simple learning place, that would be great. For starters - what is a
subnet
mask for ?

Currently (and I have to keep restoring settings to get out to the net
again
so I can research or post on here) I have a firewall/router more or less
on
default settings, which means it has an IP address of 192.168.0.1 and acts
as
a DHCP server. With the router up, my desktop PC boots and gets an IP
address
from the router - I understand all of that.

So. Having installed SBS2003 I set up a separate router to act as the
internal connection point ...

Internet -> ADSL Modem -> Server -> Internal Router -> PCs, printer etc

During set up SBS asked me to turn off DHCP on the router so that it could
install DHCP on the server, which I duly did.

SBS2003 has set itself up with in IP address for the internal LAN card of
192.168.16.1 (I think).

So, following the ToDo list I'm trying to get through the EICW. My ISP
provides me with a static IP address of 1.2.3.4 (made up - I guess it's
not a
good idea to publish my real IP address too widely) and told me to use a
subnet mask of 255.255.255.255. I'm not clear what a subnet mask is for !
They also gave me Primary and Secondary DNS Server addresses. The EICW
also
asks for the Default Gateway address, whcih the ISP was slightly confused
about and said I should use the address of the router, but EICW complains
and
says the Gateway address should be within the same range as the external
IP
address.

Actually, I don't know for sure the address of the router. From my desktop
PC I can use the web interface to set the router IP address, which I set
to
192.168.16.2 (to be within the same address as the external NIC on the
server. I also turn off DHCP on the router and apply the settings. I then
disconnect everything from the router except the external NIC on the
server.
At this point I think I should be able to browse from the server to
http://192.168.16.2 and the router interface should pop up - but no.

I'm going round in tiny IP circles here - I think it's time to ask for a
few
little pointers so here I am.



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