Recent content by cjweaser

You're Welcome!

I would disable any Firewalls/Security Software or built-in firewall that your backup DC has. Failure to access is leading me to believe that it's firewall related.

When you said via "POP", do you have a Connector Tool Setup in your Exchange System Manager? Then from your Outlook, you don't really have the actual POP3/SMTP setup and just feeding it thru your Exchange Server? Please verify this.

I would check on the SMTP ports that you're using. Contact your ISP for any SMTP issues. Find out from them is they have any other SMTP Ports to may use aside from the default ones. Other way to resolve this, is use an SMTP relay, like this one, give it a try it's free for up to 30 days, easy...

Hello, Verify that all Networking Services are running, esp. the Computer Browser. Also, when you attempt to change the Workgroup to the Domain, browse in More... and verify that on Primary Suffux of this Computer has your Domain Name listed (ex. companyname.local). You've also mentioned DNS...

You will need 2 of those VPN devices on both locations in order to do a Site-to-Site VPN. For site to site VPN you may keep your existing IP Scopes. Hope this helps.

Does this happen to only 1 User from his/her location? Any other Users that does site to site VPN from this User's location? Have you tried to re-configure her VPN access from her computer? Also, another test that you do if you have not done yet is to create a new folder and grant this User...

SBS Servers are not too bad as long as proper configuration from the Server is done. In order for the SBS to work well, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, etc. need to be configured and running in your Network. I suspect a DNS misconfiguration here, if the client computer are getting disconnected from...

I would set a restriction to be on a safe side. There's no doubt about this. I won't leave it open 24/7. If you are the Network Admin you have to provide policies in your company. Good IT policies always get approved by the management.

Hi, There are diff. things that you can do. Through your firewall, setup a time limit for ex. from 7am until 7pm. Secondly through your GPO --> User Config -->Admin Templates -->Windows Components --> Terminal Server --> Sessions then enable Sets a time limit for active TS Sessions and select...

Hi, Have you tried this solution? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889250 It might help. Let me know.

It should be simple, do you have a DC or peer to peer network? You don't need any software to do this, just your network expertise. It doesn't matter if you have a domain or you are on peer to peer network, sharing files on the network is so simple. Here are some helpful links...

Does the computer that you are trying to access have a terminal server hooked up to? It can be complicated if you don't know that much about terminal server. This is a lot simpler method. You can use logmein software (go to www.logmein.com)to do remote access and choose the free version and it...

Thank you guys for the concern. I won't be using the existing domain. As I have said, I would like to start fresh, there will be a new domain & new forest. The 2 existing servers will be demoted and will be promoted to be part of the new domain(w/ a new domain name). I know that it's a lot of...

The original DC will not be brought up anymore. The SBS 2003 server will be the new DC and the other 2 servers that we have will be backups of the new SBS 03 server. Thank you! cjweaser