Re: SBS 2003 Misconfigured?
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:34:50 -0400
Mark Grantom <mgrantom@xxxxxxxxxx[no spam]> wrote:
I apologize in advance for the length of this post, however I wanted
to furnish as much information as possible to help me solve this
problem. I have spent a great deal of time trying to solve this
myself but I am at a complete roadblock at this point. I really need
to get my system up and functional again. My SBS 2003 is setup with
1 NIC & 3 Win XP workstations. I am using a Netopia ADSL2/2+ 4pt
Managed Switch that is connected to a netgear router. I needed the
Netgear router because it has 8 ports and I have several printers
besides my 3 workstations and server that I wanted to connect to it.
My SBS 2003 Server and 3 workstations are all connected to the
router. I am having trouble not being able to print from the server
to a printer connected on one of the workstations. I get an "access
denied, unable to connect" type message. I also lose connectivity
between the WS and the server from time to time. I believe I have
something misconfigured but I cannot figure it out. Any help in
getting this resolved would be much appreciated.
The configuration of the devices is as follows:
Netopia router
(this is really a modem)
DHCP "OFF"
Manually configured static IP from ISP
DNS set to ISP DNS-1 & DNS-2
Netgear FVG318 router
WAN IP set to one of the static IP's assigned by ISP
LAN IP of router manually set to 192.168.5.2
DHCP turned off
Primary and Secondary DNS setup to my ISP's DNS
SBS 2003 Server
Computer name is MSGSRV
IP of server is 192.168.5.109
That's fine, but for reasons of tidiness & organization it's usually best to
assign your static IP addresses from the lowest or highest range of your IP
subnet. I set exclusions - such as, from .1 to .50 and from 200 - .250. I
set the gateway/router appliance to .1, and set my servers to use between
..10 and .20, etc. You don't have to do this, but I find it tidier.
TCP/IP is configured so that DNS point to itself
Good
The alternate DNS is blank, should I set it to the ISP DNS-1?
Nope.
Default gateway is set to router 192.168.5.2
DHCP is configured, but I manually configured all IP's on all
computers after I started having problems.
OK - you shouldn't need that, but see below.
DHCP scope 192.168.5.100 to 192.168.5.150
OK.
IP's on Workstations was Manually configured as 192.168.5.101,
192.168.5.110, and 192.168.5.108 because DHCP will not work. Each WS
has its DNS pointed to the server local ip.
What about the DNS suffix & WINS?
Are there a set of diagnostics I can run that will help me pinpoint my
issue? Thanks in advance.
This is a lovely and informative level of detail, but you haven't told us
the exact symptoms of the problem is yet. What precisely happens when you
try to use DHCP & get a lease on a workstation?
When you set up the server, did you install & configure DHCP right off the
bat, or did you have another device on the LAN with an active DHCP server
(and hence SBS would skip DHCP setup)?
.
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