What happened to my Summer--Part 2
Part 2—Verizon to the rescue (sort of)
When the Verizon hardware arrived and Verizon DSL service was enabled (all on schedule, I might add) I set about to get connected. The instructions were to first install it on a WinXP SP1 computer and then go about routing it to multiple workstations. So, I did that; set up my service account, mailbox name and password and began to think about connecting it to the SBS server. The first thing I did was to look at the TCP/IP properties of the NIC, figuring that I would get the usual information I always see. Alas, it was not set up with the static IP Address which I had left it with. Instead, it just had the get IP address automically radio button set, and no information in the fields. So, I ran ipconfig /all, and got the following information:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : myhome.westell.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-5B-56-12-83
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.47
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:11:56 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:11:56 AM
Clearly, DHCP was a no-no, and SBS2003 would not want the Default gateway to be on the NIC.
So I picked a dead SBS2003 server—the migrated server because I could do a fresh install with that one—just to see if I could set it up. I fed those numbers into the wizard, clicked the Finish button, and it did its thing. Then, to be careful, I booted. Lo and behold! The domain was back; the Exchange server was there, and so was the DNS server. The sun was shinning again! (Well, of course. This was July and we were in the middle of a long drought period.) But I couldn’t get out to the Internet. I looked at the WAN NIC, and it had the SBS server in as the preferred DNS server. I tried putting in 192.168.1.1 and Google is in my face. Well, it could just be a cached page. So, I googled “doily” and went off to a site I had never been to before. Lovely lace patterns. I was out! I put the new Verizon mailbox into the POP3 list and pulled down the welcome message and one I had sent using a web browser. Then I had some conversations with the Verizon Support, using their web chat room, in which they asserted that Verizon did not support Exhange email, but did admit that it was a POP3 mailbox and that a SMTP server was required to upload to it. Well, I knew that Exchange used the Default SmallBusiness SMTP Virtual server to send mail out, so I figured I could get it to work, even if they could not. Here is how it is done:
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