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Now that Mac OS 10.5 has hit the streets, there are folks who are wanting to know how to connect a Mac running the new operating system to an SBS network. This document covers steps for connecting a Macintosh running Mac OS 10.5 to an SBS 2003 network. This document assumes a healthy SBS network set up according to best practices.
If the SBS 2003 server is set up properly and the Macintosh is getting its network information from DHCP, the network settings should be ready to go out of the box, so to speak. These steps will confirm proper network settings on the Macintosh to work with the SBS network.
- Open the System Preferences application from the Dock or from the Apple Menu.
- Select the Network panel from the System Preferences application
- Review the settings for the active network connection. You should see settings that match the values expected for the SBS network. You will also see the DNS server address listed (but grayed out) as well as the internal domain name in the Search Domains field. If these values to not match your SBS network, make the necessary adjustments. The DNS server should point to the internal IP address of your SBS server, and the Search Domains field should contain the internal domain name of the network (i.e., domainname.local).
- Click the Advanced button in the Network pane.
- Click the WINS tab.
- Select the correct NetBIOS domain name from the Workgroup drop down list. The WINS server address should already be populated and be the internal IP address of the Server.
- Click OK and then Apply in the main Network panel.
- Close System Preferences.
- Open the Macintosh HD icon and select the Application icon from the navigation tree.
- Open the Utilities folder and scroll down to the Terminal icon.
- Open the Terminal application. Ping the SBS server by its short name (i.e., if the fully-qualified domain name for the server is servername.domainname.local, ping servername).
- If the Mac is getting proper DNS resolution, the internal IP of the address will respond to a ping. Note that you will need to press Control-C to stop the ping command. If you do not get the proper IP address of the server from the ping command, go back and review the network setup steps.
- Close the Terminal application.
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