Windows Server 2003 Env. Training Kit - Install problems

Can someone please direct me to a forum that can help me get the Windows
Server 2003 installed following Chapter-1's instructions in the Windows
Server 2003 Environment Training Kit book?

I'm stuck with two problems:
1. After installing I cannot get the network card to connect to the
network. It sees the network (my router), asks for the pin, but after
supplying the pin it simply will not connect. It just gives up.
2. Pg 1-22, Chapter 1, Exercise 3, point 7: We make it all the way through
the Adding a Role, selecting Active Directory, specifying a new forest,
specifying the "fully qualified domain name" as contoso.com, and verifying
the NetBIOS Domain Name reads CONTOSO ... but this is where it goes south.
It starts asking questions about static IP addresses, installing your own DNS
server as it cannot find the msft.com nameserver ...

It's been 4 full days of uninstalling, reinstalling from scratch, trying
like crazy to find some help ... I'd really, really like to get through
chapter 1!

Thanks for any pointers you can give me.

--Mary

maryb94583

maryb94583 wrote:
> Can someone please direct me to a forum that can help me get the Windows
> Server 2003 installed following Chapter-1's instructions in the Windows
> Server 2003 Environment Training Kit book?
>
> I'm stuck with two problems:
> 1. After installing I cannot get the network card to connect to the
> network. It sees the network (my router), asks for the pin, but after
> supplying the pin it simply will not connect. It just gives up.

No idea what you mean about the 'pin'. Usually you'll get an IP address
assigned from your router via DHCP. However, you won't want to do this -
you'll need to assign it a static IP address that is valid on your
network - see below.

> 2. Pg 1-22, Chapter 1, Exercise 3, point 7: We make it all the way through
> the Adding a Role, selecting Active Directory, specifying a new forest,
> specifying the "fully qualified domain name" as contoso.com, and verifying
> the NetBIOS Domain Name reads CONTOSO ... but this is where it goes south.
> It starts asking questions about static IP addresses, installing your own DNS
> server as it cannot find the msft.com nameserver ...

Active Directory cannot exist without DNS. If you're just setting up a
test AD forest for yourself, usually what you'll do is allow the Active
Directory installation wizard to configure the DNS service automatically
on your server. However, in order to be a DNS server, your server needs
to be configured with a static IP address, and we're back to my first
paragraph above.

>
> It's been 4 full days of uninstalling, reinstalling from scratch, trying
> like crazy to find some help ... I'd really, really like to get through
> chapter 1!
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can give me.
>
> --Mary

Before you can go any further with your setup, you'll need to get your
server configured with a valid static IP address on your internal network.

It sounds like you're very new to the world of Active Directory, and
indeed IP addressing. Nothing beats some good hands-on experience - do
you have any experienced friends or colleagues who might be able to show
you how to configure a new AD forest and help you configure an IP
address on your server?

Good luck!

--
Chris.

Chris M

You could always use the IP address of 127.0.0.1 for the IP in the question.
That's the internal loop-back.

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"maryb94583" wrote:

> Can someone please direct me to a forum that can help me get the Windows
> Server 2003 installed following Chapter-1's instructions in the Windows
> Server 2003 Environment Training Kit book?
>
> I'm stuck with two problems:
> 1. After installing I cannot get the network card to connect to the
> network. It sees the network (my router), asks for the pin, but after
> supplying the pin it simply will not connect. It just gives up.
> 2. Pg 1-22, Chapter 1, Exercise 3, point 7: We make it all the way through
> the Adding a Role, selecting Active Directory, specifying a new forest,
> specifying the "fully qualified domain name" as contoso.com, and verifying
> the NetBIOS Domain Name reads CONTOSO ... but this is where it goes south.
> It starts asking questions about static IP addresses, installing your own DNS
> server as it cannot find the msft.com nameserver ...
>
> It's been 4 full days of uninstalling, reinstalling from scratch, trying
> like crazy to find some help ... I'd really, really like to get through
> chapter 1!
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can give me.
>
> --Mary

MikeyT007