Win 2K Server setup

[Guest]

I would appreciate any advice in setting up a Internal soho domain with win
2k server, 4 win xp clients and a wireless router/firewall (Netgear WTG624).

I have enough understanding to manage something when it is setup, but not to
configure the dns, dhcp, ad etc.. so this is my first attempt.

The router currently gets the IP from the cable and is then a dhcp server to
my clients. (I have the server 2k machine just running as a dhcp client at
the moment).
The router is configurable to not be a dhcp server and to reserve IP's etc.

I would like suggestions please on how to setup and configure the server so
it becomes the dhcp server for the clients, yet gets the benefit of the
router/firewall and provides ICS for the clients also without having to
register an external domain name.
What IP addresses should I use etc ?

Also if there is any very basic setup info websites that would help me I
would appreciate it. I get lost in too much technical stuff like I have been
trying to read sofar, most is talking big scale stuff, rather than something
small like I want to do.

Thanks to all in anticipation of some good help

Suezy

 

[Richard G. Harper]

In broad strokes, here's how I would proceed:

1. Set up the Windows 2000 Server in a workgroup. Don't install anything
except the default Windows components (well, perhaps add things like the
monitoring tools, but certainly don't install DNS, DHCP, etc. right now).
Give the server a fixed IP address in the range you want to use for your
network - given the size of your network I'd use whatever IP address range
the router is using right now.

2. Install Active Directory and let the AD Wizard set up a DNS zone when it
discovers that you have no DNS server active now. Be sure your domain name
is one that cannot be duplicated outside the network (like using
MyDomain.local instead of MyDomain.com).

3. Once things have had a bit to settle out, install DHCP on your server.
You'll need to authorize the server in Active Directory. Be sure you set
the DHCP server options for DNS server so that it points to your AD DNS
server and set the default gateway to the IP address of your router.

4. Create user accounts on the domain controller.

5. Disable DHCP on the router.

6. Reboot each client PC and make sure it gets the correct settings via
DHCP. If the client doesn't have the right DNS server the next step won't
work.

7. Join the client PCs to the domain.

You can fill in the details on AD, DNS, DHCP, etc at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet or http://msdn.microsoft.com/; basic
networking at sites like http://www.wown.com/ and
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/

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