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just installed back office small business server 4.5 server. i have taken the base 5 user license cd and purchased additional 15 licenses. during setup i have given 5 licenses only as i have yet to get the licenses from my vendor. now when i try connecting more than 5 users intermittently i am getting login failure error. it is allowing the clients to login to domain some times and some times not allowing. when i tried to add licenses from control panel it says add it from sbs console. when i do it from sbs console it is asking me for the license diskette. as far as i know microsoft licensing is on paper only. i tried to change the registry setting in the current control set & licensing. there it says 10 clients are allowed. when itry to increase it to 20 it is giving error and not allowing me to do this. what went wrong. should i reinstall the sbs 4.5 server to give 20 licenses or license diskette is available for sbs serever.

also one more typical problem with proxy server. by default sbs takes 10.0.0.2 as the ip address for server and configures the dhcp server. now i changed it to class c private range address 192.168.0.1. now when i try to connect from client machine(windows 9.x) using netscape navigator 4.7 it is asking me for the password . after giving the user name and password it displays error. permissions are given in web proxy for every one group for www protocol. i do not have any problem with internet explorer 5. all i.e 5 clients can browse with out giving any password and can download mail using outlook express. i tried uninstalling netscape and reinstalled. it did not help. same error. i have some die hard netscape users. so please help me.

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by hippo

Licenses.
SBS Licenses are different to NT licenses in that they do come on a diskette and not just on paper. Once they arrive, you run the diskette and reboot a couple of times. The diskette becomes registered to the machine and the NIC MAC address.

Netscape
Make sure that the win95 box logs on to the domain. Did you run the setup disk from SBS on this box? In Netscape,try setting it NOT to use proxy server.

There are some issues with changing the IP of the SBS box, check out support.microsoft.com for more. ~Tony

by yves

On your first problem, I guess there is no other way but using license diskette thru SBS console.

On your second one, have you tried installing the MS Proxy client (using the Folder mspclnt on your SBS server)? Or check your proxy settings on your Netscape browser?

Give it a try...

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