XP CLIENTS ON WIN2000 DOMAIN?

[Guest]

i really need help b4 2moro evening(01-01-05). this is the cenario:
i am trying to network 5 computers. 4 are runing win XP pro and the other
one has win 2000 server installed. i want a domain client environment where
the xp clients are joined to the win2000 server(domain controller).
all of the machines including the win2000 domain controller connect through
a wireless adsl router(netgear dg834gt wireless adsl firewall router).
however, i want to have 1 xp pro client connecting to the router via ethernet
cable and the rest via wireless pci cards.
at the end of the day, i want to achieve the following:

a)accessing of files with security in mind
b)internet connection on all pcs via the router
c)clients managed by the domain controller
d)a centrally managed network via active directory

what steps should i take to resolve this problem? a successful solution will
earn you £5.00. I promise this to the first successful reply.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

i really need help b4 2moro evening(01-01-05). this is the cenario:
i am trying to network 5 computers. 4 are runing win XP pro and the other
one has win 2000 server installed. i want a domain client environment where
the xp clients are joined to the win2000 server(domain controller).
all of the machines including the win2000 domain controller connect through
a wireless adsl router(netgear dg834gt wireless adsl firewall router).
however, i want to have 1 xp pro client connecting to the router via ethernet
cable and the rest via wireless pci cards.
at the end of the day, i want to achieve the following:

a)accessing of files with security in mind
b)internet connection on all pcs via the router
c)clients managed by the domain controller
d)a centrally managed network via active directory

what steps should i take to resolve this problem? a successful solution will
earn you £5.00. I promise this to the first successful reply.

What is the problem you're looking to resolve? Just do it, this is a
normal setup.

Jeff

 

[Chad Mahoney]

i really need help b4 2moro evening(01-01-05). this is the cenario:
i am trying to network 5 computers. 4 are runing win XP pro and the other
one has win 2000 server installed. i want a domain client environment where
the xp clients are joined to the win2000 server(domain controller).
all of the machines including the win2000 domain controller connect through
a wireless adsl router(netgear dg834gt wireless adsl firewall router).
however, i want to have 1 xp pro client connecting to the router via ethernet
cable and the rest via wireless pci cards.
at the end of the day, i want to achieve the following:

a)accessing of files with security in mind
b)internet connection on all pcs via the router
c)clients managed by the domain controller
d)a centrally managed network via active directory

what steps should i take to resolve this problem? a successful solution will
earn you £5.00. I promise this to the first successful reply.

Below is the link you need I will collect my $$ now...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/serversteps.asp

 

[Steven L Umbach]

First I would not recommend using a wireless nic on a domain controller. The
connection is too unreliable and problems may ensue on booting up as the
wireless card usually does not provide network connectivity until late into
startup. Having said that keep in mind that the domain controller must have
a static IP address and must be the ONLY dns server for all your domain
computers. You use dcpromo to create a domain controller from a server. Be
sure to pick a domain name that does not already exist on the internet which
can be easily done if you use a name like mydomain.corp. The link below will
tell you what you must do for dns. Also use the domain controller as the
DHCP server and not the router. Disable DHCP on the router.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382

To join a computer to the domain make sure that it's preferred dns server is
the domain controller before you try to join it to the domain. To access the
internet the domain controller can be configured to use your ISP dns server
as a forwarder or it will use "root hints" as long as it does not have a
root [.] zone itself which you can delete. Then all you have to do is make
sure that all the computers including domain controller use the lan side IP
address of the router as the default gateway. Of course the router and
computers all need to be on the same network address which is usually
192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx. Use My Computer/properties/computer name -
change to join a computer to the domain. Most management, including adding
users and Group Policy, is done via Active Directory Users and Computers
which is available through administrative tools on the domain controller.
Password policy for the domain is managed via Domain Security Policy and
Group Policy is opened by selecting the domain or Organizational Unit
properties and selecting properties/Group Policy.

As far as wireless security, read the documentation for the router and make
sure that you enable either WEP or better yet WPA-PSK on the router and then
configure the wireless cards to have the same WEP keys or WPA-PSK
[pre-shared key]. The router by default should act as a basic firewall to
protect internet users from accessing the network but you need to secure the
wireless traffic with WEP or WPA from "eavesdroppers". WEP is not as secure
as WPA. To improve security of WEP 802.1X can be enabled but requires you to
configure a CA, IAS, and issue a certificate to the IAS server. The domain
controller could do all that I suppose. 801.1X allows WEP to use dynamic
keys to greatly improve security. If you can use WPA-PSK, that should be
very secure as long as no one else spills the beans on the pre-shared key.
If you have to use WEP, the keys should be changed/rotated regularly
[probably at least weekly] but the problem is no one ever seems to do
uch. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=815485 --- WPA can use PSK also.

 

[Guest]

hi steve,
thanks for your answer but could you further explain the process of
making my dhcp to use my isp's dns server as a forwarder. this thing abt
"[.]zone which I can delete" is a bit too confusing. where do i do this?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

hi steve,
thanks for your answer but could you further explain the process of
making my dhcp to use my isp's dns server as a forwarder. this thing
abt "[.]zone which I can delete" is a bit too confusing. where do i
do this?
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;825036

i really need help b4 2moro evening(01-01-05). this is the cenario:
i am trying to network 5 computers. 4 are runing win XP pro and the
other one has win 2000 server installed. i want a domain client
environment where the xp clients are joined to the win2000
server(domain controller).
all of the machines including the win2000 domain controller connect
through a wireless adsl router(netgear dg834gt wireless adsl
firewall router). however, i want to have 1 xp pro client connecting
to the router via ethernet cable and the rest via wireless pci cards.
at the end of the day, i want to achieve the following:

a)accessing of files with security in mind
b)internet connection on all pcs via the router
c)clients managed by the domain controller
d)a centrally managed network via active directory

what steps should i take to resolve this problem? a successful
solution will earn you £5.00. I promise this to the first successful
reply.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

The link I gave about Active Directory dns pretty much covered that but
anyhow go to administrative tools and open the dns Management Console. Under
"forward lookup zones" look and see if a root domain exists which would be
represented by a single period [.] . If one is there delete it. Your dns
server is now able to resolve internet dns names for it's dns clients via
root hints. You also can open the properties for the dns server, go to the
forwarders tab and enter then IP address of your ISP dns server as a
forwarder. --- Steve

hi steve,
thanks for your answer but could you further explain the process of
making my dhcp to use my isp's dns server as a forwarder. this thing abt
"[.]zone which I can delete" is a bit too confusing. where do i do this?

i really need help b4 2moro evening(01-01-05). this is the cenario:
i am trying to network 5 computers. 4 are runing win XP pro and the other
one has win 2000 server installed. i want a domain client environment
where
the xp clients are joined to the win2000 server(domain controller).
all of the machines including the win2000 domain controller connect
through
a wireless adsl router(netgear dg834gt wireless adsl firewall router).
however, i want to have 1 xp pro client connecting to the router via
ethernet
cable and the rest via wireless pci cards.
at the end of the day, i want to achieve the following:

a)accessing of files with security in mind
b)internet connection on all pcs via the router
c)clients managed by the domain controller
d)a centrally managed network via active directory

what steps should i take to resolve this problem? a successful solution
will
earn you £5.00. I promise this to the first successful reply.