Topic: Weekend Installathon Questions

[gbentley]

Spent all Saturday setting up 1 Sme 7 and 30 XP Workstations !!!

The SME 7 went like a breeze !!!

The workstations took somewhat longer ....

A couple of questions arise :-

net time \\server /set /yes in the login.bat always used to work without problems but on 7 it throws up some error which I think is related to perms. Anyone know about this or have a workaround / fix ?

And, is there a way to view the domain website hosted at the ISP when you are using SME for DHCP / DNS as users are getting the 'local' version ?

[chris burnat]

net time \\server /set /yes in the login.bat always used to work without problems but on 7 it throws up some error which I think is related to perms. Anyone know about this or have a workaround / fix ?

Please report this issue to Bugzilla, I am sure the Devs want to know about this.  Thanks.

And, is there a way to view the domain website hosted at the ISP when you are using SME for DHCP / DNS as users are getting the 'local' version ?

Just had same issue.  Try to remove hostname www.mydomain.com pointing to your internal IP address and create a new hostname=www.mydomain.com pointing to the IP of your ISP server. Failing this, use the "Internet DNS servers" setting. Someone with more experience may have a better way.
Rgds.
chris

[gbentley]

Unfortunatly using the IP address results in a 'generic response' page at the ISP as they are doing some multi-host trickery.

(thought of this 1st by adding a http refresh to the starter web page)

Editting the resolv.conf nor the dhcpd.conf doesnt work either.

[gbentley]

> Failing this, use the "Internet DNS servers" setting.

Can you explain this in more detail ?

The net time command works fine from a dos box on wintop but not from netlogon.bat on server .... will try again next time I am in.

Edit: Forgot to ask ....

Users home drives mapped as Z: automatically ?

Is that right ? How do i change this to H: ?

[jonroberts]

Is there a way to view the domain website hosted at the ISP when you are using SME for DHCP / DNS as users are getting the 'local' version ?

I think if you go to Hostnames & Addresses in Server Manager and modify the www host entry to Remote with the correct external IP address then this should work (at least it always did on SME6   )

Jon

[gbentley]

Jon, thanks for that mate. I have a strong suspicion I should have have researched this one  touch better however as it getting a bit colder I dont mind a few flames