Re: Slow Domain

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Start/Server Management look for the icon.

Review all of Handy Andy's articles as he follows best practices
according to Andy. That happens to also be generally accepted best
practices. If you do not see all the things in his articles then you
may have some tidy up to do.

No raid is a huge oops. You would have been better to make 4 of the
drives all part of the Raid 5 and just created a few partitions.

Is your Rev drive working with NTBackup or something else?
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bgb/archive/2005/10/24/72685.aspx

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:08:01 -0800, Leigh Weems
<LeighWeems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I aquired the server from another client so it was free, I have resetup the
SCSI RAID to have 1 stand alone drive for the OS and 3 drives set in a RAID 5
that my data is stored, so I have the OS drive with 35 Gig or so drive space
and the 70 Gig or so for data. I have a IOmega 35 REV drive for backup
purposes. How can I restart the Internet connection wizard so I can turn off
DHCP on my DSL modem?

Thanks for your replies!

"Jim Behning SBS MVP" wrote:

I hope you did not pay more than a few hundred for the server. As
Lanwench suggested that server should be installed from scratch. I
would suspect that the Raid array was supposed to be raid 5 with a hot
spare hard drive. That means that you have or should have had 72 gigs
to play with. You really should not be running your server on an
antique hard drive that has no redundancy.

The workstations should be getting their ip from the SBS. Their dns
should point to SBS. The SBS should be aware of the sip dns which was
entered when you ran the connect to the Internet wizard from the
Server Management console.

Just as a reference you can get a new Dell server with a quad core
Xeon processor, 4 gigs of ram, Raid 1 SATA 250 gigs for about $1,500
with a 3 year warranty. Add a few usb hard drives to run a backup and
SBS Standard for $600. So used old stuff should be a lot less.

See Handy Andy for some SBS 101 setup instructions.
http://www.sbs-rocks.com/articles.htm Part 6 may be helpful.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:32:01 -0800, Leigh Weems
<LeighWeems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let me start off by saying that in no way am I an expert with SMS2003. I
manage a small network with 5 workstaions, a couple of network printers and 1
server running SMS2003. Over the weekend the company purchased a new (used)
server. Basic specs: SuperMicro Superworkstation 8044A-8 with a Xeon 3.0GHz
processor 4GB RAM (2 x 1GB, 4 x 512MB), 4 x Seagate Ulta Wide SCSI 36GB HDD
with OS loaded on 1 drive and a RAID 5 setup for data only on the other 3. I
have a simple logon script batch file for the 5 users to map drives (not
really sure if I did that correctly or not). All users are part of the
Domain Users group, and that group has full access to the data drive, and
just inherited rights to the OS drive. The business is using AT&T DSL
internet with the AT&T modem doing the routing. All workstations have static
IP with the server's IP address for the Default Gateway, and the DSL modem's
internal IP address as the Primary DNS server.

When the users login to the domain, the programs are really slow to access
and to swich back and forth, and users are complaining that they cannot
access the programs installed on the server sometimes. I disabled the Norton
Antivirus auto-protect on the client's and server and 2 workstations have a
fresh install of Win XP Pro and the network programs.

When I log the users into their machines locally and just map a network
drive to the server, all the programs run much faster and. according to the
users, the way it should run.

Can anyone give me some insight on why everything is slower when
authenticating to the domain? A second question that I might put in a
different post is the fact that I can not Remote Access my server. Any help
would be appreciative.

.

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