Small Business Server 2003 "CompanyWeb"

Factual Questions
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I’ve been configuring Windows Small Business Server 2003, and everything was going great until I tried to access the Intranet from a client PC.

On the client PC, if go to http://server/ in IE, I get the SBS web site. But if from that page I click on “Access the company intranet” (paraphrasing) it tries to load the page “http://CompanyWeb/”, which is unresolved in DNS.

I’m a complete SBS newbie. What’s going on here? I thought it might just be a DNS issue, but if I go to the server ip address I get the same page as I would (of course) when I go to http://server/

I then thought that perhaps the client pc wasn’t added to the SBS network, so I went to “http://server/ConnectComputer”, but it says that the computer is already a part of the domain.

Any ideas?

(Or do you know of any good forums that might have a quick answer for this? I’d rather not pay Macrohard the $245 for a support incident)

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I’ll bump this once so the morning crowd can see it…

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I was able to figure this out, so I’ll post the solution for future generations.

All of the client computers were pulling DNS from the ISP, because that’s how the router DHCP settings were configured (as you’d expect). So, I just added the local network IP address of the Windows Small Business Server to the list of DNS servers on the router (with the server appearing first in the list), ran a release/renew on all clients, and now it works like a champ.