Server Setup Help - DNS

Hi,
Hopefully someone can shine a light on this for me. I am sure I have confused myself more by doing all this research.
I am attempting to setup OS X Server (Leopard Server 10.5.4) on my server and am getting a little confused at the primary DNS Name setup screen.
I have a domain, lets call it macserver.com. It currently does not have any hosting. I plan on hosting it on my own server. I also created an A record (remote.macserver.com) and pointed it to my static IP address that my ISP gave me for remote desktop purposes, and eventually forward all MX records to it as well.
I can ping the A record address (remote.macserver.com) from any other network just fine so I know that is working.
My question is what do I put into the Primary DNS Name section during the setup? Would that be my domain name (macserver.com) or the remote.macserver.com? Should my server name be remote? Or could it be anything I want?
I currently don't have any dns servers. The AEBS is doing DHCP and handling the DNS as well. From my understanding I can setup the server to handle the DNS, and then just put in the DNS information (ip address) for my server in the AEBS setup screen and all should be good.
Thanks for the help.!!
I am not an expert at DNS so any help would be appreciated

My question is what do I put into the Primary DNS Name section during the setup? Would that be my domain name (macserver.com) or the remote.macserver.com? Should my server name be remote? Or could it be anything I want?
From your description, your 'domain name' is 'macserver.com'.
Your server name is 'remote', and your fully-qualified domain name is 'remote.macserver.com'.
Note that you don't have to call your machine 'remote'. You can have multiple DNS records pointing to the same machine, so your machine could be called 'fred', but have DNS CNAME's that point 'remote.macserver.com', 'jack.macserver.com', and 'www.macserver.com' to the same machine. Other users use one (or any) of the names to get to the machine.

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Hopefully you have a working iCal server to now. If you find something interesting or you think I left some important things out. Please reply and fill out the blanks.
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"Has has anyone else seen this problem?
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Unfortunately you are posting in the wrong forum. You need to post deployment issues in the Windows Server Deployment forum.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm trying to setup my email, it's my work email and they don't provide an outgoing server, need help

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With an attitude like that, you got nicer replies than you should have. I have my work email on my iPhone and my iPad, but there's no way on earth anyone here would have known what my companies server is other than my company system administrator.........

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Thanks a lot anyway and if there is any info u feel i know know about, please do let me know.
Your help is appreciated!!
Regards,
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Server and time capsule will both do NAT, DHCP. Which should I use for the network Server or Time Capsule. I am connecting with a Brighthouse cable modem with a Dynamic IP. I have the Time Capsule in Bridge Mode with a static IP 192.168.0.6. The server is Static with 192.168.0.5. Brighthouse wireless is disabled as I like the time capsule wireless. Time capsule is providing WI-FI. Brighthouse router/Modem provides the Router at 192.168.0.1.
I have a domain name abc.net. Should I set up lion server first and then set up Time Capsule after it is working? Do I set this up as a .local, .private or .net account during server setup? I want to be able to get to my computer from my domain name and handle my mail.
I set this up once and it worked for about 2 hours. After that it would never see my computer. So I am setting up server again but wanted to see if I could get a little first time guidence this time. I also signed up with DYNDNS for DNS updating and that just seemed to throw a whole new batch of problems in.
So any help would be great... Not dumb with computers, but new to apple servers. And I don't do geek well!!
I think all the IP numbers, what I need to change on Netfirms to get to my computer get me confused in the setup.
Thanks

Server and time capsule will both do NAT, DHCP
Sure.
Which should I use for the network Server or Time Capsule
Why do you think you need to use either of them?
Ideally, you should have ONE device on your network running NAT, and ONE device running DHCP.
From your description it sounds like your Brighthouse router is running NAT therefore there is no need to run NAT anywhere else.
The chances are that the Brighthouse router is also running a DHCP server for your LAN, therefore there is also no need to run DHCP off the Time Capsule or the Server. You've already got those bases covered.
So, at least without more information, I'd be inclined to say: neither.
Should I set up lion server first and then set up Time Capsule after it is working?
Probably. It depends on what your plans are for the Time Capsule. If you're using the TC as a wireless base station then it doesn't need to be running until you're ready to connect wireless clients.
If you're using the TC for backup, you don't need it until your server and/or clients are setup and ready to backup.
Since the TC is not (as per the above) running either NAT or DHCP, there's not much else to do with it.
So focus on the server.
Do I set this up as a .local, .private or .net account during server setup?
That's entirely up to you, although there are a couple of options. First off, though, realize that there is no, zip, nada connection between the hostname you use on your internal LAN and any public domain. It's 100% valid for your server to be called foo.bar while serving web content for abc.net and getting email for xzy.com, all at the same time.
Personally, I tend to set them the same (e.g. abc.net in this case), but others will recommend a different approach. It's largely personal preference.
I want to be able to get to my computer from my domain name and handle my mail.
If you're talking about getting to your computer/mail from an external locale, that's 100% down to DNS and completely independent of what the server thinks its own name is.

How do I setup a DNS record to point to an internal IP with a port.

I am trying to setup a DNS entry on my AD server to point to a web sever that I have setup to run certain services. All of these services run through IIS on port 82 for example service A is internally 192.168.0.1:82/info/login and service B is 192.168.0.1:82/tech/login.
I am trying to give these services easy to use names like for example info.mycompany.com and tech.mycompany.com so that it is easy to access for the employees but I am obviously missing something because I have had no luck setting up anything. My
company is still using SBS 2003 as it's AD and DNS server so I am working with flint and bear skin here.
I am also trying to do the same thing for the external access to these services but where as I have the internal address for these services I have the external static IP. When using the external IP with the port from outside the network everything
works fine but I would like for it to to have a simple name identical to the internal names but accessible from the outside. I frankly feel out of my depth on both of these issues and I would really appreciate any help that can be lent. Thank you.

You cant set a dns record (that would be used by a browser) to point to an ip and port, srv records can but that requires the application to look them up.
To have info.mycompany.com point to 192.168.0.1:82/info/login you
would add a cname or A record to the dns pointing to that IP, then in IIS you would assign that dns name to the host headers. Also in IIS you would need to use
URL rewrite plugin with this you would setup a redirect for that host header {HTTP_HOST} to point to that link.

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Hello, I have a quick question for understanding how this configuration works that we just setup and I want to understand if I am driving this the right way and if we configured this in the
proper setup.
So..
Server 1 - RDWeb / Connection Broker
Server 2 - RDWeb / Connection Broker
Server 3 - Terminal Server 1
Server 4 - Terminal Server 2
Server 4 - Terminal Server 3
This was setup and I am asking the team to build these server to make a highly available environment so that we can grow and move applications here in the future. I would like the team to configure
the CB for High Availability then use our F5 to balance the Web Services. This should yield a very fault tolerant model for us, as I see it laid out and if you have suggestions or faults don’t hesitate to voice them.
However I am getting resistance and I am unable to understand where my logic is flawed. Does the High Availability on the broker balance the web services, I am being told that they do however
I don’t know how and I want to ensure I am operating off the correct information.
Thank you for any insight that you can provide for me on this.

Hi Jessica,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
As you want to configure RDCB high availability, I can say that you must have SQL server setup that can be used by RDCB server to store data. You also need to create a folder to store SQL database files. Also SQL Server Native Client is installed on all RD
Connection Broker servers. Static IP addresses have been assigned to all RD Connection Broker servers. DNS resource records with a single DNS name have been created for all RD Connection Broker servers that will be part of the deployment.
Please refer beneath article for more information:
1. RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012
2. Deploying RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012
3. Step by Step Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services – Part 2
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

Sane virtual mail server setup?

I'm giving up. I want a simple mail server setup (imaps, pop3s, smtps) with virtual user support that I can comfortably configure from the web (PostfixAdmin, web-cyradm, courier-web). I want to manage multiple users on multiple domains. It appears that the task I want to accomplish is insanely complex for some reason. I'd like to use as few different software packages as possible.
I can't find a simple and sane tutorial on the topic and I don't even care what software is going to be used. Of course, I did search and play around with the config for hours but to no avail. The tutorials in the Arch wiki are no good either, they are either outdated or do not allow me to do web configuration.
Help me out here, please.

It's always good to have alternatives, but out of curiousity, did you not try the courier-mta wiki? I used that wiki guide recently and it had me running with a system like what you describe without too much fuss. The only stuff I haven't tried/used is web-based administration or mail access; perhaps this was the problem for you?

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