Re: Installation of 2003 SP2 ip address/gateway question

There are (at least) two aspects of OEM pre-installs that cause most of us
to ignore them and install for ourself.
1) Insufficient space on the OS partition or the drives configured as a
single partition. Most of us want 30-40GB for the OS partition to allow
sufficient free space for NTFS performance not to be degraded by lack of
such, while separating our OS from DATA partition(s). I know Dell will do a
25GB option, just sufficient.
2) The OEM 'reseal' procedure causes the original server name to differ from
that chosen during the final configuration. This caused a problem with (I
think) SBS SP1 and though SBS Dev are aware of the problem and hope to avoid
future instances some of us simply prefer to avoid the issue. The original
server name also effects the name of the IWAM/IUSR accounts.

On the dynamic vs static IP: That should be a 'warning' rather than an
'error' however I suggest that both your NICs should have static IP
addresses. The External NIC should have a static IP in the subnet of your
NAT Router/modem (actually, you don't mention ISA so really this should
connect to a proper firewall, in which case I'd probably run single NIC
only) and the Internal NIC should be static and providing DHCP.

"RS Acoustics" <RSAcoustics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wow...thanks for the fast response. It sounds like you've had experience
with preinstalled systems which were less than satisfactory. I do have
the
installation discs so I may give that a try once I get this router/email
thing worked out.

In your reply you said the server requires a *local* static ip address.
Is
that an address that I can specify and assign myself, or is that an
address
that my ISP must give me?

FYI, I have a dual NIC card with one port connected to the "alleged"
internet, and the other port connected to a switch. Getting help for this
from the system manufacturer (Dell) or my ISP (ATT) has been
underwhelming.

Thanks again for your help!
--
RS Acoustics


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

RS Acoustics <RSAcoustics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've recently purchased a server w/ SBS2003SP2 preinstalled

My advice? Wipe it out and start over. You'll have much better control
over
yuor setup that way. I never use preinstalled server configs.

and am
having diffuculties setting up internet and email accounts.

Did you go through the To Do list?

I was
however able to finally get internet access. Now when I try to use
the Email wizard I get an error message saying that I must have a
static IP address.

Yes, on the server itself. It needs a static *local* IP.

Currently my contract with my ISP provider is for
dynamic addresses.

That's *internet* ... not internal.

My 2Wire modem however can handle both static and
dymamic addresses.

You need a good firewall appliance that can do NAT, unless you'll be
using 2
NICs and ISA (with SBS2003 Premium)

I wish to use the server's internal DHCP to handle addresses if
possible.

It's possible and it's definitely recommended.

I believe that I ultimately must turn off the DHCP on the
modem,

Yep....I'd do that asap.

however can I configure my current modem to work with 2003SP2
without having to get a new ISP contract with static IP addresses?

Hmm. that's not really related to the above...whatever device does NAT,
will
have a public and private interface, with appropriate IP addresses on
each.
PRivate = something like 192.168.0.0/24 or similar. Those are static on
your
network equipment and server, and your DHCP server dishes out addresses
in
that range to your workstations.

This will more than double my monthly internet costs.

See www.dyndns.com or www.no-ip.com or similar. I like Dyndns best/

Thanks for any help!

Hope this helps. I do recomend you blow away the installed OS and start
over
from scratch. Plan to install SBS three times to ensure you've gotten the
hang of it, before goign live.





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