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Companyweb defaulting to SBS Welcome page

I have a cleint that used their companyweb extensively.  All of a sudden in
August after their line of business vendor installed .net 2.0 we started
experiencing issues.  Thinking it was a conflict between .net 1.1 and 2.0 I
followed all of the KB's I could find.  I just reinstalled Sharepoint
services, restored their companyweb from a back-up and followed the procedure
to move the companyweb into a separate application pool so it was not running
in the same application pool with the line of business application.  
Companyweb was now working on the server, but I had to renew IP's and flush
the DNS cache on the desktops for them to be able to view it.  Within 24
hours everyone was back on the welcome page as opposed to the cpmanyweb when
browsing http://companyweb/default.aspx.

So it must be a DNS issue, however I compared this installation to all of my
other ones and the DNS settings for Companyweb appear to be identical.  I am at a loss.
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To understand your situation, your client was using SBS 2003 as their enterprise server and SBS comes packaged with Exchange and SQL. When you mention Company Web, I am assuming that you are trying to refer it to Windows SharePoint Installation and based on the URL that you have mentioned I feel that its running on Default Port#80. WSS 3.0 needs .Net 3.0 and i feel that your other business application hosted on IIS required .Net 2.0. For this very reason, you re-installed and probably re-configured Application Pools. I think you need to have a seperate websites within your IIS and configure Line of Business Apllication to run on ASP .Net 2.0 mode by managing properties in IIS. However, i need to understand more for the DNS configuration that you have done.
Open the companyweb website in IIS, go to the IP settings advanced, and in there you will find its listening on port 80. Edit that, and in the "host header value" box type companyweb. This will now set it listening to anything with the header of companyweb to go to this IIS site. for example:

Multipul Identities for this website:

192.168.1.1 companyweb.domain.local
192.168.1.1 companyweb

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Did this problem ever get resolved ?

We are having the same problem. Had been working fine for a long time then all of a sudden various PCs on the LAN get the Welcome Page instead of CompanyWeb. Can happen on different PCs not always the same ones (Vista and XP) but can also work again the next day or even in a few hours. Apart from Windows updates, we have had no other recent changes.
Since no resolution has been posted, before this is closed I'll just add that the problem can be caused buy more than one DHCP running on the same Network which can in turn cause a DNS issue.