SBS 2008 RC0 is out and I’m very excited with everything I’ve seen so far. The server is 64 bit so I had to go and buy a new hard drive for my Intel Core 2 Duo test machine (which has 4GB of memory).
After reading a couple of documents about the new features, I decided to go through the step and join a Vista computer in the domain. The first difference between SBS 2003 and 2008 is that we don’t have to set up a computer account anymore. The wizard does that for us.
The second difference is that instead of typing http://servername/connectomputer , we now need to type http://connect. The process starts and the following are the screens I encountered while going through the process.
After successfully joining the computer to the domain, I clicked the plus ( + ) button the Windows Sidebar and selected to add a Gadget. I selected to add the ‘Windows Small Business Server Desktop Links’ gadget that is installed when the computer joins the domain.
The following picture shows the gadget on the Sidebar
Hi
I had trouble joining PC’s to the domain the normal way
I tried this method yesterday on RC1.
All is well and good until the configuration part of where I keep getting bad username or password which is what I was getting the normal way.
I cant figure it out, I am using the admin account username and password that I created on the initial setup but still gives the same error.
Any suggestions?
Hi Brett,
I didn’t try RC1 yet, maybe on the weekend, but I didn’t have the problem when I did this post. I have to say that I used a VM for the Vista, but I don’t think that is the issue.
You might want to try posting at the forums and see if anyone can help
I just set up a fresh RC1 too, and the http://connect doesn’t go anywhere, just a 404. If i go to http://connect.domain.local I get a nice IIS7 logo splash that takes me to Microsoft’s site if I click on it.
I’m using a VM for XP Pro to connect to SBS08 on another VM. I can ping just fine and do name resolution.
I’ll have to check that with RC1. Although I installed RC1 I didn’t create a new VM for a client computer yet so I can’t comment about your issue.
I’ll try to find some time and do that and I’ll post back
David,
I tried to reproduce your problem and I can’t. I run RC1 on a physical machine, with Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 and I created a VM with XP Pro SP2. I run http://connect without issues.
It’s possible your problem has to do with the networking setup of the two VMs
This problem occurs when you configure manually the ip address of the client. If the client takes an ip from sbs dhcp server it works fine.
Kosta,
Thanks for the input
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