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[seanos]

Have just purchased a new windows sbs 2003 server. When running through the setup, the person running it selected "use existing network" which was wrong as we are setting up a new network from scratch. Its obtained the IP from the network in the office next door as we are using a shared network infrastructure. From this its setup Active directory using the ip and settings it got using dhcp......I need to fix and strart from scratch but dont really want to reinstall windows and go from scratch but am struggling where to start.

Any help?

 

[itsp1965]

Well I won't ask as to why you are sharing a network infrastructure with another office, but first I would say, disconnect your server immediately form this shared network.

Now assuming you have a new IP segment all you need to do is to right click on My Network Places->properties->Select Local Area Network Connection->TCP/IP and modify your settings to use a static IP address.

Since it seems from your note you are not very familiar with Windows 2003, I strongly suggest you get a consulting company to help setup your network appropriately

 

[seanos]

cheers for the feedback. I'll give it a go. Network consultants are for wuss's...hands on is the way forward. .....if all else fails there's always google.

Cheers

.p.s. yea your right about 2003.....i'm an NT4 boy

 

[Davetoo]

Consultants are there to save your butt when you do something stupid...or to help you not do something stupid.

No...I'm not a consultant, but I'm aware of my limitations and when I reach them, I stop and ask my consultant before proceeding.



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It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!

 

[58sniper]

Network consultants are for wuss's

I suspect that comments like that will certainly affect the level of help you get here.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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[pagy]

I suspect that comments like that will certainly affect the level of help you get here.

Yeah, I don't know whether to be insulted or to ring my clients and tell them they are all wuss's :

I need to fix and strart from scratch but dont really want to reinstall windows and go from scratch but am struggling where to start.

If you need to scratch then starting from scratch means re-installing windows.

In all honesty if you have only just built the server then start again, disconnect from the network that you share and reinstall Windows, installing SBS does not take very long to do.

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCSA 2003
MCITP Enterprise Administrator

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

 

[seanos]

I'm hoping the majority will have seen the wuss's comment for what it was...very much tongue planted in cheek.

Sorry for the offence if you feel offended.

Cheers for the advice guys, have already restarted the installation from scratch and have disconnected it from the shared network connection.

Thanks

 

[ashpp]

cheers for the feedback. I'll give it a go. Network consultants are for wuss's...hands on is the way forward. .....if all else fails there's always google.

More importantly a consultant wouldn't advise to share a network! Fair enough if you want to share resources - but doing so on the same subnet without a firewall\router for protection against each other is very unwise.

 

[seanos]

again i think your struggling to see the tongue in cheek irony of coming on a forum full of network guru's/consultants asking for help from them and then making the above statement. I'll give up.

But thanks all for the advice and help. Is much appreciated.

 

[ashpp]

again i think your struggling to see the tongue in cheek irony of coming on a forum full of network guru's/consultants asking for help from them and then making the above statement. I'll give up.

Don't worry I see the joke. Still my advice stands, I wouldn't ever think of sharing my train set with another company.

 

[seanos]

Yea I see what you mean. In fairness as someone said previously, its a shared resource, not a shared network, which makes me wonder where sbs decided to pull its IP from....

You may have gathered from my lack of knowledge of the infrastructure that its not my network...its a friend of mines.

Fresh install it is.