If you're talking about "connecting" from within your local area network, then the easiest way is to set your SBS server up with a static (non changing) IP address. This can be done either in settings in your router or in settings on the server. If on the router, usually there is some mechanism to "reserve" a particular IP address for a particular mac address in the DHCP server settings on the router.
Personally, I usually just set up the dhcp server to start serving up addresses starting at x.x.x.100 or some such and configure the static address below that "floor". Once you've set the SBS server to a static address (e.g. 192.168.1.22), you can then add entries in the hosts file on your various client machines that tie a host name to that IP. On windows machines, this would be: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts Add a line like: 102.168.1.22 mysbserver You'll then be able to "connect" to your SBS server at: http://mysbserver:9000/ If you're talking about "connecting" from outside of your LAN, i.e. from over the internet, then you have to set up your router's firewall to accept traffic on a particular port and then to forward those packets on to your SBS server's IP address. Again, setting the server to a static IP will make this much easier. There are real security concerns here, though. Unless you have a real need to serve up music from your SBS server over the internet, I wouldn't dabble in this. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76714 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/jive
