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Subject: Use connectcomputer?
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Rob Pelletier User is Offline
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1/21/2007 04:08 AM  
In spite of the fact that I have installed a number of SBS 2003 networks, I have never had any luck with the connectcomputer interface - it juts didn't work for me the first time I did an SBS server, and I just never tried again.
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere (maybe here?) that connectcomputer doesn't work for workstations that had previously been joined to a domain.  Is that true?
 
I like the apparent ability of connectcomputer to maintain a workstation's user profile when that person joins the new SBS domain, and would like to try again to use it.
 
Has this problem been fixed by Microsoft, or has anyone found a workaround?
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1/21/2007 05:39 AM  
You are right. If you have a workstation joined to a domain you will not be able to use connectcomputer. Connectcomputer is designed to join a computer to the SBS domain from a workgroup. So in order for that computer that is in a domain to be joined to the SBS domain, it needs to be put back into workgroup mode. And then you can run connectcomputer on it.
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1/21/2007 03:10 PM  
Thanks for your reply...

I thought that any workstation that had EVER been a domain member would be troublesome using connectcomputer. UN-joining a domain doesn't help...

As I said, connectcomputer brings up not-too-happy memories for me...
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1/21/2007 03:22 PM  
I’ve never had in trouble in that regard. I'm not saying connectcomputer works flawlessly every time. But when I have issues it is usually a firewall, IP address, or something else not letting the workstation communicate with the server.
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7/20/2007 05:50 PM  
I learned a few things recently doing a migration. We completely redid a SBS domain with 1 main office and a remote office connected via VPN.
the remote office was on a different subnet. The main office was 10.0.0.x and the remote office was 192.168.2.x

In order to get connectcomputer to work I had to do the following things:
the remote office is running server 2003 (not r2) as an additional DC, GC, DNS, DHCP so forth.

Since the remote office was on a different subnet, I had to go into IIS on the SBS at the main site and add the remote subnet to the directory securty tab on the default websites.

I also went into IE right before I used connectcomputer and went into the security settings and added http://*.domainname.local to the trusted sites.

I had to use the FQDN :\\server.domainname.local\connectcomputer and then it worked like a charm..
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