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Whos Used SBS Company Web?

lamborgini8

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Right before I go totally insane and shove the keyboard through the screen has anyone here used a rediculously rubbishly designed bit of software called Small Business Server Company Web from Microsoft? All I want is to get the damn thing to work as an intranet which is what it was designed for... It works on the server itself and my computer for god knows what reason but it refuses to work what so ever on everyone elses computer that has identical settings.

It loads up and is fine for me but for everyone else I get the good old page cannot be displayed, yet if I go to the server IP on the computers it comes up with a sort of portal page with a bit of info but as soon as I click the link to company web it seams to go poof into microsofts ass and laughs.

You can probally tell but this is really doing my head in, the site is all set up how its needed and its PERFECT yet because its microsoft its totally blind for no aparent reason. Google don't help much either, and the fact someone went on a mouse clicking frenzy and blocked hundreds of sites including a load of help forums and for some rediculous reason google images I cant even get much out of any searches at all.
 





There are way too many variables here to be sure, but it sounds like a DNS issue.

On your machine, do an nslookup for the hostname, and then do the same on another machine that's not working. From the description of the issue, I suspect the other machine will not be able to resolve the hostname.

I assume you are attempting to serve a website via ISS? Did you check the properties of the website under IIS and make sure that
1) You are not filtering IPs
2) All accounts have permissions
 
Most Microsoft web Software uses a different standard, just like internet explorer, so it might not work with most PC with Firefox or that don't have certain Settings on, also many times software like that changes your DNS settings without you knowing.
 
cexshun said:
There are way too many variables here to be sure, but it sounds like a DNS issue.

On your machine, do an nslookup for the hostname, and then do the same on another machine that's not working. From the description of the issue, I suspect the other machine will not be able to resolve the hostname.

I assume you are attempting to serve a website via ISS? Did you check the properties of the website under IIS and make sure that
1) You are not filtering IPs
2) All accounts have permissions
Click to expand...

How do I do a nslookup? It's just going to get my IP right? and what is IIS?

Edit:
Found the IIS on the server but I can't find much on the settings for it. If I right click on companyweb and click permissions the account 'Users' which is for every computer is already there. I have tried giving access to one person and that didnt work and I tried adding the whole work network to the granted access part and it didn't work either.

I really am lost now, most sites on google are saying to reinstall it but that is not an option.
 
lamborgini8,
The first thing to do is right click the broken link and go to 'properties'. Ensure the URL is valid and matches the hostname.

Then, open a dos command prompt and type 'nslookup <servername>'. Try browsing to the IP address instead of the hostname.

post back your results...

cheers,
kernelpanic
 
Ok, just stumbled across something that might be of use to this. We had a little issue with OpenDNS randomly turning itself on, at the time when it was enabled on my computer I could access companyweb but it was blocking other sites.

I have now dissabled it by changing the IP on my machine but it now does the total oposite. The sites that were blocked are now unblocked but companyweb gives me a 404... Just to confirm the clue I tried to get onto companyweb on a computer that has OpenDNS enabled and it has access to companyweb.

This sort of gives me a massive clue that it is the IP causing the problem. Any ideas? I now have administration access so I can change IPs and user accounts.
 
O.K. That is a clue. Are you running a DNS server on the SBS server? If so is it the built-in MS one or is it openDNS?

I ask because it sounds like openDNS resolves only internal sites and youe non-openDNS settings resolve the internet but not the LAN. This points to DNS issues. To narrow it down-

1. Open the IIS service manager. Right click the copmpanyweb sight and look for what IP address is assigned to the webpage. (If you have multiple NICs on the server, you may wish to limit companyweb to the internal one...). At any rate, write this IP down.
2. In 'Administrative Tools' Go to the DNS plugin. Browse to your domain name and add an alias called 'companyweb' with the IP you got from step 1.
3. Open a browser and try to go to companyweb. Remember if you haven't changed the defaults that companyweb will be on port 444, not port 80. So you have to put :444 after the .com part of the URL

Hope this helps,
kernelpanic
 
kernelpanic said:
O.K. That is a clue. Are you running a DNS server on the SBS server? If so is it the built-in MS one or is it openDNS?

I ask because it sounds like openDNS resolves only internal sites and youe non-openDNS settings resolve the internet but not the LAN. This points to DNS issues. To narrow it down-

1. Open the IIS service manager. Right click the copmpanyweb sight and look for what IP address is assigned to the webpage. (If you have multiple NICs on the server, you may wish to limit companyweb to the internal one...). At any rate, write this IP down.
2. In 'Administrative Tools' Go to the DNS plugin. Browse to your domain name and add an alias called 'companyweb' with the IP you got from step 1.
3. Open a browser and try to go to companyweb. Remember if you haven't changed the defaults that companyweb will be on port 444, not port 80. So you have to put :444 after the .com part of the URL

Hope this helps,
kernelpanic
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We are using the default windows DNS, as for putting in the domain... Well the companys online website isn't actually hosted on our own server, thats on a different one which is totally seperate.
 
lamborgini8 said:
We are using the default windows DNS, as for putting in the domain... Well the companys online website isn't actually hosted on our own server, thats on a different one which is totally seperate.
Click to expand...

So when you try to open companyweb what URL are you using?
 
kernelpanic said:
[quote author=lamborgini8 link=1233763340/0#7 date=1234358429]

We are using the default windows DNS, as for putting in the domain... Well the companys online website isn't actually hosted on our own server, thats on a different one which is totally seperate.
Click to expand...

So when you try to open companyweb what URL are you using?[/quote]

I just go to http://companyweb/
 
404 means that you are connecting to the server but it is unable to provide the page. Do step 1 from my previous post and get the IP/port of the companyweb server. Then try putting that IP into the browser like-

http://<IP>:<port>

If companyweb comes up, then you need to go to DNS and make sure the companyweb entry matches the settings in IIS.

Hope this helps,
kernelpanic
 
kernelpanic said:
404 means that you are connecting to the server but it is unable to provide the page. Do step 1 from my previous post and get the IP/port of the companyweb server. Then try putting that IP into the browser like-

http://<IP>:<port>

If companyweb comes up, then you need to go to DNS and make sure the companyweb entry matches the settings in IIS.

Hope this helps,
kernelpanic
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If I go to the IP it just goes to the Business Server 2003 Welcome Page with a few help links and the companyweb link. If I click the companyweb link it just goes straight to 404.
 
kernelpanic said:
O.K. Have you applied the KB832330 update from Microsoft?-

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832880

Also What does the IIS properties show for IP/port of companyweb?

And finally, what happens if you go to-

http://companyweb/default.aspx   or

http://companyweb:444/default.aspx

cheers,
kernelpanic
Click to expand...

The IP is set to the same as all other computers, it is 198.162.1.1. The port will be whatever is set to default, I would look but I can't get the keys for the server room at the moment.

Edit: Ports 80 and 444 as you said.
 
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