Re: Advice Needed re: Best Setup for Two Organizations Sharing Single
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:15:38 -0500
SteveS <SteveS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi There,
I have just acquired a new client that is a non-profit (5 x WinXP
desktops) sharing office space with a church. The church is not my
client although I hope it might be at some point in the future. Both
share a single DSL connection. Both are currenly running peer to peer
with no central file management or server etc. Staff at the non
profit are frustrated and ready to move to a server based network. I
don't see a problem with the non-profit having an SBS server on their
own and the church continuing to be peer to peer (single DNS and DHCP
server) but what happens down the road if the church decides to get
SBS as well.
As long as you set them up on two isolated LAN subnets (which shouldn't be
difficult if you have more than one static IP) this is a cinch - and
protects each network from the other.
- I am assuming two SBS can't exist in the same subnet even with
different domains ... can someone verify this?
I think this will cause problems, but I haven't tried it, honestly.
- If two SBS servers can't co-exist in same subnet can two regular
Windows 2003 Servers exist (non-profit is using Act and won't really
need Exchange) or can I have one SBS server in one domain and one Win
2003 Server in another domain?
Yes, but it's still insecure & might lead to other problems. I'd try to
avoid it if possible, as they aren't actually the same "company".
- Has anyone tried adding two additional routers in a Y configuration
so they each have their own subnet (they use VPN which might make
this a challenge) but still share internet connection
Yes. You need more than one public IP address from the DSL provider to make
this work right, tho -
-------------------------------------------------
*ISP's modem*
|
|-----Ethernet switch-----|
| |
(123.123.123.1) (123.123.123.2)
*RouterA* *RouterB*
| |
|----LANA----| |----LANB----|
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- Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
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