"Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jack" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I want to add a server role to my guest OS Win2.3k server... DC
>> I want to be able to play with Active Directory, mostly querying it using
>> LDAP.
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>> I'm not really from a networking knowledge (more app prog). When I try to
>> add this role Win2.3k asks me for a DNS FQDN. As this guest is just a
>> stand alone instance there is no domain etc.
>> Am I able to get around this stuff so I can get AD up and running?
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> If you want to play with AD, the best method is to put the server in
> Local Only and give it a static IP in its own IP subnet (ie not the same
> one as the host). You can then set up AD in its own domain with its own
> DNS (and DHCP if you like).
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> With only 2G of memory you are pretty limited, but you could probably
> run an XP guest as well if you give both server and client 512M each. Put
> the guest in Local Only as well and it should get its network config from
> DHCP on the server.
Thanks Bill,
I'm 99% certain I chose to not join a forest/domain at this point when
setting up 2.3
Is this what you meant? I'm not sure how to specify local only.
I don't want another guest to talk to the server. Simply using .NET code to
talk to AD on the server.
Can you tell me where I assign the IP, Subnet addresses and set the DNS and
DHCP options please?