Bigjakkstaffa
12-06-2006, 02:21 PM
Evening all,
To cut a long story short, im currently sitting a "Windows Server Admin" module at University, and due to a combination of a) equipment thats never working properly and b) a tutor who is about as helpful as a **** in a wind tunnel, i've decided that in order to actually complete and understand the tutorial work, i'll carry it out at home on my own machines.
Thus far at University, we've added a Win 2003 server to a pre-existing Win 2003Active Directory Domain, created some users and OU's, a few shares and set up DHCP and DNS servers. Nothign mind-blowing.
Im tryign to repeat this process at home, however, at home i dont have the luxury of a pre-configured Active Directory Domain Controller. The story thus far goes.
Two Windows Server 2003 PC's:
PC1 "CARLSSERVER" - IP: 192.168.1.200
PC2 "Server1" - IP: 192.168.1.201
I have run "dcpromo" on CARLSSERVER as per instructions here, with the domain name "carl.domaintest":
http://www.visualwin.com/AD-Controller/
I have alse set up a DNS Server on "CARLSSERVER", and configured both "CARLSSERVER" and "Server1" to use 192.168.1.200 (CARLSSERVER's IP Address) as the preferred DNS Server.
So far, eveything seems ship shape. However when logging onto the Domain with the Domain Administrator from "Server1" things start going belly up.
While i seem to log onto the domain okay (my user status is shown as being "Carl\Administrator"), there are a couple of issues. Firstly, the Administrators profile does not seem to match that which appears on "CARLSSERVER" (i've put a few desktop shortcuts etc in place, that dont appear when loggging on from the second machine).
Secondly, i cannot access the Active Directory Administrative tools. e.g. trying to open "Active Directory Users and Computers" returns an error message (after an eternity of waiting i may add):
"Naming Information cannot be located because:
The Specified Domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted..."
All i can think of is that that means the DNS server on "CARLSSERVER" isnt set up correctly, but im not really to sure why, or what i should even check to make sure its okay.
The only other issue i can possibly think of is that i am using VMWare virtual machines with Bridged Networking, and that the "Real" network hardware (we've got three machines running off a Router/Switch with built in DHCP) might be causing problems?
Your help on this issue is greatly appreciated.
Cheers in advance
--Jakk:t
To cut a long story short, im currently sitting a "Windows Server Admin" module at University, and due to a combination of a) equipment thats never working properly and b) a tutor who is about as helpful as a **** in a wind tunnel, i've decided that in order to actually complete and understand the tutorial work, i'll carry it out at home on my own machines.
Thus far at University, we've added a Win 2003 server to a pre-existing Win 2003Active Directory Domain, created some users and OU's, a few shares and set up DHCP and DNS servers. Nothign mind-blowing.
Im tryign to repeat this process at home, however, at home i dont have the luxury of a pre-configured Active Directory Domain Controller. The story thus far goes.
Two Windows Server 2003 PC's:
PC1 "CARLSSERVER" - IP: 192.168.1.200
PC2 "Server1" - IP: 192.168.1.201
I have run "dcpromo" on CARLSSERVER as per instructions here, with the domain name "carl.domaintest":
http://www.visualwin.com/AD-Controller/
I have alse set up a DNS Server on "CARLSSERVER", and configured both "CARLSSERVER" and "Server1" to use 192.168.1.200 (CARLSSERVER's IP Address) as the preferred DNS Server.
So far, eveything seems ship shape. However when logging onto the Domain with the Domain Administrator from "Server1" things start going belly up.
While i seem to log onto the domain okay (my user status is shown as being "Carl\Administrator"), there are a couple of issues. Firstly, the Administrators profile does not seem to match that which appears on "CARLSSERVER" (i've put a few desktop shortcuts etc in place, that dont appear when loggging on from the second machine).
Secondly, i cannot access the Active Directory Administrative tools. e.g. trying to open "Active Directory Users and Computers" returns an error message (after an eternity of waiting i may add):
"Naming Information cannot be located because:
The Specified Domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted..."
All i can think of is that that means the DNS server on "CARLSSERVER" isnt set up correctly, but im not really to sure why, or what i should even check to make sure its okay.
The only other issue i can possibly think of is that i am using VMWare virtual machines with Bridged Networking, and that the "Real" network hardware (we've got three machines running off a Router/Switch with built in DHCP) might be causing problems?
Your help on this issue is greatly appreciated.
Cheers in advance
--Jakk:t