Re: Configuring SBS2003 with ADSL router
- From: Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:10:28 +0100
GoldenBoy wrote:
I have a part-time SBS2003. I say part-time becuase it is only turned on when I need to educate myself. Otherwise, I run my affairs from one Vista machine. Set up I have is;
BT phone socket ==> Thomson TG585 (ADSL wireless modem with 4 Ethernet ports). To these Ethernet ports I have connected - one SBS2003, one Vista desktop, one XP desktop and one pritner. I also run XP on Virtual PC. Laptop connects wirelessly.
I want to be able to access all machines whether SBS2003 is turned on or not as well as to SBS2003 when it is switched on and sometimes it is switched on after other machines have been turned on for a while.
How do I configure DHCP setup. Thanks in advance.
Obviously there's no point in using the SBS for DHCP or DNS (which is rather more important). So you cannot expect the workstations to interact with the SBS in the same way that real domain workstations would.
You have no choice but to use whatever the router can do in the way of DHCP and DNS. For SBS practice with workstations, you will probably have to stick to virtual machines which are properly configured for domain use, and are therefore useless when the SBS is off.
You could certainly switch TCP/IP configurations on the workstations between SBS practice and normal use, but it's tedious and it's easy to miss a step and waste time chasing down the error.
Don't bother trying to include both the SBS and other DNS servers in the workstation configuration: it will work for a while and then give you intermittent and extremely time-wasting problems.
Domain workstations must use the SBS *only* as DNS server. It's not essential that they also use it for DHCP, but it is strongly recommended. If you're trying to make sense of a new aspect of the SBS, you really don't need network problems as well, especially intermittent ones.
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Joe
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