Small Business 2000

[George Barley]

Hello,

Please give me some input, if you can.

I have a Windows SBS 2000. We are wanting to get a new more powerful
server for file sharing/printing, and set the old one (currently with
Win SBS 2000) as a web server for a small static website. I remember
there were issues with SBS 2000 having to be the domain controller, etc.
SBS 2003 is very affordable, but is that what I should get, considering
I want to keep my users, files, etc?

Basically, my question is: how would two SBSs work together? Well /
badly? If badly, what OS should I put on the new machine?

Thank you,
George
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[Mark Mancini]

George,
2 SBSs CAN work together via PTA but considering what you are using it for I
would STRONGLY advise this instead. Do NOT host your site in house. Get a
reliable host with good stat reporting. Migrate to SBS 2003 (merging onto a
clean IS is a safer way). There is a white paper on this that makes life
easy. b/c of licensing you would have to buy a license and if the machine
is 3 or more years old, it isn't worth using.
--
Sincerely,
Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
www.MCSE2000.com
www.AppLauncher.com

Post by George Barley
Hello,
Please give me some input, if you can.
I have a Windows SBS 2000. We are wanting to get a new more powerful
server for file sharing/printing, and set the old one (currently with
Win SBS 2000) as a web server for a small static website. I remember
there were issues with SBS 2000 having to be the domain controller, etc.
SBS 2003 is very affordable, but is that what I should get, considering
I want to keep my users, files, etc?
Basically, my question is: how would two SBSs work together? Well /
badly? If badly, what OS should I put on the new machine?
Thank you,
George

[Earle]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/d/c/6dccf9b4-d915-4c95-b5af-100b89e02add/SBS_MigratingSBS2k.doc

You will want to migrate to the new hardware it sounds like. It's pretty straightforward. Then you can format the old server and use it for whatever you like. Just for the record, except for doing a migration, 2 SBS's won't work together at all.




----- George Barley wrote: -----

Hello,

Please give me some input, if you can.

I have a Windows SBS 2000. We are wanting to get a new more powerful
server for file sharing/printing, and set the old one (currently with
Win SBS 2000) as a web server for a small static website. I remember
there were issues with SBS 2000 having to be the domain controller, etc.
SBS 2003 is very affordable, but is that what I should get, considering
I want to keep my users, files, etc?

Basically, my question is: how would two SBSs work together? Well /
badly? If badly, what OS should I put on the new machine?

Thank you,
George
***@yahoo.com (get rid of "_nospam" to email me)

[Tony Su]

Depending on your objectives, if you want to run 2 SBS
they can run well or badly.

You can't establish a trust between the two, so each would
have to be managed separately.

But, you <can> configure files to be shared between the
two machines if you wish... construct a site to site VPN,
Web Shares or individual VPN connections.

Or, as I have setup on one site because one SBServer has
no clients (as you describe, one will do little more than
webserving), turn off DHCP on the "other" SBS and connect
the LAN adapters of both SBS to the same network. Of
course, you should continue to run DHCP on the SBS your
Host machines belong to.

Lots of ways to make things work...

Tony Su

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
Please give me some input, if you can.
I have a Windows SBS 2000. We are wanting to get a new

more powerful

server for file sharing/printing, and set the old one

(currently with

Win SBS 2000) as a web server for a small static website.

I remember

there were issues with SBS 2000 having to be the domain

controller, etc.

SBS 2003 is very affordable, but is that what I should

get, considering

I want to keep my users, files, etc?
Basically, my question is: how would two SBSs work

together? Well /

badly? If badly, what OS should I put on the new machine?
Thank you,
George

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