Re: Slow Domain
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:59:02 -0500
Leigh Weems <LeighWeems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is an accounting office so I will have to wait until after April
15 to redo my RAID configuration.
I suspect that you'll have to redo your entire SBS setup.....not 100% sure,
tho.
The REV drive came with backup
software that seems to be working nicely.
Unfortunately, that won't suffice. Use SBSBackup - you need to do a proper
backup of system state, online Exchange databases, etc - not just your data
files. Myself, I'm not a big fan of REV drives.
"Jim Behning SBS MVP" wrote:
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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