[AccessD] Setting up a Domain.

WOW.  I will definitely be looking at this.

Thanks Drew!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Drew Wutka wrote:
> Many people think that a domain is something you only use in a company
> network environment.  While domains are more common there, domains
> certainly have enough usefulness to be used at home too.
> 
> Here are some situations where having a domain at home can be useful:
> 
> You have more then two computers on your home domain.
> You have children accessing your home network.
> You develop for businesses that have domains.
> 
> 
> If you have more then two computers on your home domain, a domain
> controller can make your home network much easier to manage.
> 
> Have kids that use your computers? Let's face it, computer security
> usually only keeps honest people honest.  Give me a home computer you
> think you have 'secured', and I can show you how to break into it with
> full admin rights.  Local access to a machine can open a lot of security
> holes.  That is one of the big advantages of a domain.  In a domain,
> your security is centralized, and as long as you don't give anyone
> direct access to the domain controller, security settings are all but
> impossible to get around.
> 
> If you developer for a business, that uses a domain, there are a lot of
> features of Active Directory that you can use in your systems to make
> your systems more powerful/intuitive.
> 
> So, let's build a domain:
> 
> First, we'll start with a box running Windows 2003 server.  Have this
> machine plugged into a switch, with nothing else.  (we don't want any IP
> addresses to be given out, so if your 'switch' is a router with DHCP,
> turn that off). This should be a clean install of 2003, nothing extra
> added.
> 
> I have posted screen shots:
> http://www.marlow.com/downloads/DCPromo1.jpg through
> http://www.marlow.com/downloads/DCPromo18.jpg (for space considerations
> I am just going to go through them with numbers, not full links:
> 
> 1: Welcome Screen, click next
> 2: compatibility info, click next
> 3: Type of DC.  First (default) option (DC in new domain).  Click next.
> 4: Type of Domain. First (default) option, domain in a new forest, Click
> next.
> 5:Name your domain.  I named my test domain AccessD.net (click next)
> 6:NetBios name, it'll assign it automatically, click next.
> 7 & 8:Default folder locations, assigned automatically, click next.
> 9:DNS, select second option (install and configure DNS), click next
> 10: permissions, select second (default) option, click next
> 11: Restore mode password, enter password twice, click next.
> 12: Summary: click next
> 13: During the setup/installation of AD, it will get to the part about
> installing DNS, and should prompt you for your 2003 CD, put it in.
> Since your network connection is connected, but not getting an address,
> it will prompt you to change the 'dynamic address' to a static one,
> click the ok, and you'll get your LAN settings window.  Select TCP/IP
> and click Properties
> 14: Setup your IP address info like this.  Your DC IP will be
> 192.168.0.2, and your Gateway (router) will be 192.168.0.1
> 15: Go into your addition settings and put your domain in as the DNS
> Suffix, click Ok.
> 16: We're done (so far), click Finish.
> 17: Click Restart Now
> 18: When you click ctrl-alt-del, click options, and now you have a Logon
> to: option with your new domain.  Select the domain, and log in as
> Administrator (your administrator password will be the same as the one
> you setup before setting up active directory (NOT the recovery password
> you put in, unless they happen to be the same password).
> 
> Next up.... setting up DHCP and WINS.
> 
> Drew
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