I have a standard SBS 4.5 setup using Proxy Server2.0 to access the internet. I recently set up a web server for internal use only, registered it’s name in WINS, and the clients can see it fine. Unfortunatly, the box uses cookies which will only work with a fully qualified domain name. Microsoft say that if you configure the LocalDomains setting in the WSP client, and it can find a DNS entry, it will work, but it doesn’t. Microsoft Tech Support are convinced that if DNS is set up on the client (and the name is in the LocalDomains List), it will find the site. This isn’t true. As soon as I switch off the “connect via proxy server” the client finds the site inmediatly, but otherwise it jsut goes into a loop.
Normally, SBS doesn’t use DNS, just WINS, so I assume there is some way that the WINS Service goes on to ask the external DNS servers for the relevant IP number. The server has an (first) entry to an Internal DNS with the server address, so why doesn’t this work (as it does for every other service…), or is it something that might need a couple of reboots? I have stopped the Proxy serveice a couple of times.