Small Business Server 2008

[snehadulur]

We have a Power edge 2400 dell server running with sbs 2000, with all the client computers connected to it running on a network, we recently got a new server with sbs 2008, I am not able to connect the clients to this server because it has created a network of its own, when I run the connect program on the clients it gives me an error.
The old server is acting as the domain controller, they are both connected to the same router. How do I connect the clients to the new computer now, I am not able to migrate because our old server has no active directly and nothing has been configured on it properly, it has been used as a file sharing system all these years.
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[Rob Pomeroy]

I've no idea about SBS2008, but SBS2000/2003 were intended to act on their own within a domain.  They don't play nicely with other domain controllers.  I strongly suspect the same is true of 2008.  You will need to remove the clients from the 2000 domain (while connected to that server) and then join them to the new domain with the new server connected.

[snehadulur]

I was just going to send my question as a personal message to you. I was looking into how clients can be removed. I could join one computer by changing the domain on MY COMPUTER to the servers domain, but it does not work as expected, it is recognized as a client, but it says "No DNS entry for this computer is available"

[jerryheavyarms]

Change it first to Workgroup then restart. After restarting, you can move it to your new domain.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Jerry took the words right out of my... keyboard.

[jerryheavyarms]

  Its just that I'm on the other side of the world. You're probably sleeping when Im awake,