Guest Chu2ch Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Good Day folks, Im hoping someone can help me. First let me start by saying that i am not a server admin. I am helping a friend set up a 2k3 SBS standard server. The problem we are having is sharing the dial up internet from the server to the clients of the domain. All of the clients are running dhcp that is assigned by the 2K3 server. Can anyone please help me get the internet available to the clients through the network. I bet many people are wondering why we are using dial up internet, and unfortunately high speed is not available in the area. Thanks in advance for you help. Chris.
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Re: How to share a servers dial up internet. Chu2ch <chu2ch@gmail.com> wrote: > Good Day folks, > > Im hoping someone can help me. First let me start by saying that i am > not a server admin. I am helping a friend set up a 2k3 SBS standard > server. Note that the best place for SBS questions is microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. SBS does a lot of things differently and you need to be careful. As in everything else SBS, you need to run wizards to configure everything, even if you think you know better. > > The problem we are having is sharing the dial up internet from the > server to the clients of the domain. All of the clients are running > dhcp that is assigned by the 2K3 server. That's fine. > > Can anyone please help me get the internet available to the clients > through the network. The wizard you're looking for is the "connect to the internet " one, which is in Server Management. I haven't tried to share a dialup connection in years, but if SBS can do it it will be in there. > > I bet many people are wondering why we are using dial up internet, and > unfortunately high speed is not available in the area. > > Thanks in advance for you help. > > Chris. I suggest you look into getting an analog modem router instead of forcing the Windows server to do this task. There used to be plenty of these devices around - now you may need to look on ebay. Then all your clients (and your server) will point at the LAN IP of thde router device for their default gateway ....and the router itself will be responsible for sharing the connection. Note that performance will suck regardless....if you can't get any kind of DSL/cable/leased line, you might consider satellite. It has its problems (you can pretty much forget about any kind of remote access working, due to latency problems) but it would probably be better than dialup.
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