"Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jack" <noreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Bill Grant" <not.available@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.
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>> 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? >
> Where are you planning to talk to AD from? The host machine? I would not
> recommend that. I also suggest you do a bit more reading on AD!
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> You select Local Only for the NIC in the guest from the vm settings for
> the guest machine.
If I select local only I get no internet access for the guest.
But now that I have all the latest windows updates etc perhaps I don't need
net access anymore