Joining Windows Server 2008 to Windows Small Business Server 2008

We have Windows Small Business Server 2008 and it came with a copy of Windows Server 2008 and MS SQL. (A packeged deal from Microsoft).
Long ago I installed Windows Server 2008 and MS SQL on a computer and joined it with SBS2K8.
My Windows Small Business Server 2008 crashed and I had to redo it and now I can't get the Windows Server 2008 to join it.
We are not using the computers for a domain or anything but they are on our network with regular IP addresses.
The Windows 2008 Server uses the SBS2K8's IP address for it's DNS. The DNS for the SBS2K8 is 127.0.0.1
We are using Windows Server 2008 for SolidEdge and MS SQL has to authenticate against the SBS2K8 to run.
Should I hook both computers up to a switch for their own network to get them talking to each other?
Do I have to put the Windows 2008 Server name in the SBS2K8 for a user?
Please advise and thanks.

Hi:
Read the warning at the end of this and be sure you follow it.
Can you explain further this part: We are not using the computers for a domain or anything but they are on our network with regular IP addresses.
I ask because SBS MUST be a domain controller or it will not work. Right click My Computer - Properties - Computer name tab and let us know if the SBS is "domain" or "workgroup".
What I expect is the SBS is a Domain, and when you reinstalled it it becomes a new domain, even if it has the same name. The Server was a member server in the old domain, so the solution to this is to change the Server 2008 with SQL from domain to
workgroup in the same place as above, then after it restarts rejoin it to the SBS domain by changing it once again to Domain.
Both the SBS and the Server 2008 should have static ip addresses and the SBS should be the DHCP server for the rest of the network, not your router/firewall.
Warning: You MUST check in control panel - users on the Server 2008 to verify you have a local administrative level account and you are positive you know the password for that account. When the server restarts after being placed into workgroup
mode the domain administrator will no longer be able to logon to the Server 2008.
Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] If your question is answered, please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

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