Do we need to upgrade? 1

[AndyWatt]

Hi All,

Just a quickie, I hope.

We currently have Win98 clients and an NT4.0 SBS 4.5 Server, running Exchange 5.5, and SQL Server 7.0.

We are currently upgrading clients to Windows 2000 Pro, and I've noticed that they don't recognise the NT4 domain as being a domain. Consequently whenever a client machine attempts to access email the user is having to re-enter username and password, and the drive mapping login scripts are also (obviously) not executing.

So my question is, do we need to upgrade the server to Windows 2000 Server? And if so, what else are we going to need? I'm guessing the SBS version comes with Exchange 2000 and SQL Server 2000 as per SBS4.5...

Many thanks,



Andy
"Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boutroux
"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." -- Greer's Third Law
"Go Bengals!" -- Me

 

[N0ktar]

No need to upgrade the server, Win 2K works well with NT server. Refer to this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258832

more info on Win2K Pro here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/interop/ProInNT.asp

 

[rubby2003]

SBS 4.5 is a funny beast.
I support both 4.5 and SBS 2000.
SBS 2000 is much more stable than 4.5 ever was.
And yes SBS 2000 comes with all newer 2000 Back office updates like exchange 2k and sql 2k but the best perk is ISA 2k.
I would look at how many CAL's you have first.
Let me guess when you login and authenticate to a share then map it .. you keep getting dinged for password everytime you refresh or reconnect it... I am fishing on the last comment.
Some other things to consider is to also make sure that WINS is fully functional.

 

[AndyWatt]

N0ktar

Thanks for that. Now got Outlook sorted.

rubby

You're pretty damn close with your fishing! But the login scripts are not executing - no mention of passwords or anything.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Andy
"Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boutroux
"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." -- Greer's Third Law
"Go Bengals!" -- Me

 

[rubby2003]

in the user profile make sure that you are using the unc pathnames for login script
also can you navigate to the login script manually from 2000 machines?

 

[dkediger]

Actually, with SBS, the current version is 2003. It might be hard to find SBS2000 except through an OEM.

SBS2003 comes in two flavors - Standard and Premium.

Standard is the Server and Exchange only. Premium includes all the other goodies like SQL, ISA, etc. There is a substantial difference in price between the two.

 

[AndyWatt]

dkediger

> There is a substantial difference in price between the two.

Yeah. We noticed that. My customer asked if we could get away with a copy of SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition!

It looks like we'll have to bite the bullet and shell out another £2000. Ouch.

rubby2003

I had the login scripts working, I just forgot to overwrite the one generated by SBS. It now works fine.

Andy
"Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boutroux
"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." -- Greer's Third Law
"Go Bengals!" -- Me