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> "Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>>
>> You select Local Only for the NIC in the guest from the vm settings for
>> the guest machine. >
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> 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 Once you promote it to a DC, you wouldn't have Internet access anyway
unless you modified the DNS. You are better off having the DC isolated from
the host machine and any network it might connect to.