Mark,
Click on the start menu, select the run option, type in "dcpromo" without quotes and
follow the prompts. After a while and a few mouse clicks, a
dialog box will appear informing you that it can not contact or find a DNS server.
Once you click OK it gives you two options, one is to manually
install DNS at a later stage and the other is too automatically install DNS for you,
select this option.
Garth.
-----Original Message-----
From: Abbiss, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 April 2001 04:19
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [ActiveDir] Installing AD on a new win2000 server
Dear List,
Please can someone point me in the direction to get CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS
instructions on how to install AD on a new (not upgraded) version of windows
2000 server.
The installation of the server itself was very straightforward but using the
"Configure Your Server" wizard to upgrade the server to a DC and install AD
refuses to work. It keeps falling down at the DNS stage. I have seen a
mention in the FAQ that you do not need to install DNS to have AD but I have
no idea how ?!
The basic installation of 2000 Server does not put the machine into a
domain. My test machine will be the first and only machine in the domain and
therefore I need to move it from the workgroup it currently is sitting in to
a domain...but how can I do that without having DNS installed.
I plead with you all....is there anywhere that I can get an idiots guide to
setting up my new machine with windows 2000 server and AD....I never had
this much trouble with NT 4.0 !!
Cheers
Mark
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