Re: Reinstalling SBS2003 R2 + existing logins

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Hi Colin,

Thanks for your response.

Yes, SBS was doing the DHCP and giving out the SBS server IP address as the DNS server to the clients (I entered the two ISP DNS servers during the SBS setup). I turned off the DHCP server in the NAT router.

One thing that I was unsure of was how to handle DNS on the NAT router - the router handles the internet connection (it's a range of IP addresses) and there are fields for entering DNS addresses - should they point to the SBS server or the ISP DNS servers when the server is in operation (I have been told that it should point to the DNS server).

Unfortunately, the server is remote to me and also switched off.. so can't post ipconfigs. The clients are also now back to using the DHCP server on the NAT router.

The slow down only started to show after a couple of days of normal use (internet connections were unaffected however). There are 7 clients on the network - all Vista business, less than 3 months old.

Others have suggested this fix:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/04/04/vista-slow-after-sp2-installed.aspx


Thanks, I will look at the migration site...

Colin wrote:
Hi James,

Is SBS doing the DHCP on this network ? Vista is not causing your problem here. Slow network access is usually a DNS issue. Can you post an ipconfig from both the server and a client ?
How many clients on this network ?
If you really need to rebuild the server you may want to take a look at www.sbsmigration.com

Regards Colin.

"James Hurrell" wrote:

I am planning to completely reinstall our SBS 2003 r2 server from scratch. It was only in operation for a week with our Vista clients before I had to remove it as the network had slowed to a crawl (logons slow, shared folders nearly impossible to access etc. - issue being addresses elsewhere). The problem is linked with Vista (some have suggested), however, I am taking the opportunity to do a clean install again.

My question concerns existing domain logins. Prior to the introduction of SBS, my users were using local user accounts on the machines. I migrated these accounts to domain accounts using the http://server-name/connectcomputer wizard (i.e. all their desktop settings, favourites etc were migrated and it worked well). Currently the server is offline, but the users are still logging in with their domain logins using the locally cached password.

What will happen to these user logins when I reinstall the server? The domain name will be the same and I will recreate the same users and computers using the wizards on SBS. Will these users just simply be able to login and interact with the domain after the re-install or will the trust between the clients and the server be broken?

Is it better to unjoin the client machines from the domain and then rejoin using http://server-name/connectcomputer?

Thanks.

.

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