Windows 2003 Server Enterprise [Resolved]

[<ABX]

Currently i have a computer setup at my house running Win XP Pro SP2 hosting a asp.net website of mine. The only other thing i use this computer for is for remote desktop.

Specs:
1800+ AMD Athlon
320mb sd ram
8 Gig hard drive

I was wondering if it was worth the effort reinstalling and puting Windows 2003 Server on it because i was thinking about setting up a domain anyway.

Would this help preformance?

Also, the clients that would be part of the domain move around alot, would having them part of a domain cause any trouble for them? Some might want to connect to a workgroup.

Edit: All clients XP SP2

[dglienna]

if you use it to control other PC's, then I don't think that remote desktop is in Server2003. I'm not sure, but if they still have Terminal Server built in, then you could still remotely CONTROL the server.
I don't think that the server would be any faster, but haven't done any actual tests to verify that.

[<ABX]

I know that Terminal Services are included w/ Windows 2003.

I was more wondering about the performance of IIS 6 and Asp.Net.

[Ideas Man]

Yes, that's fine. Also, a computer can only be a member of 1 domain or a workgroup, can't be both. You can connect to computers in another domain as long as you have permission to access and and same with computers in a workgroup, just can't be a member of both w/o changing.

Yes Windows Server 2003 does have Remote Desktop support, you will however need to turn this on as it is off by default, you don't need to install terminal services as the Remote Desktop in Windows Server 2003 allows two concurrent RDP sessions for administration, which by the sounds of it, is all you'll need.

[<ABX]

I would now like to setup this computer as a Domain controller.

I installed W2K3 Enterprise on the machine.

Turned off the dhcp server function on my router

Set The Server's ip to 192.168.2.100 (Anubis)

Enabled dhcp thru the wizard.
Created and activated a New Scope 192.168.2.101-199

Enabled dns:

Created New Forward lookup zone "."
Created New Domain Under "." named "Hades"

Installed Active Directory ( Start --> Run --> DCPROMO)
Domain = "Hades"

Did i do this correctly?

[Ideas Man]

Spose, I would've used the wizard though, much easier and does all that for you.

[<ABX]

Gave up... reinstalled and used teh wizard...

Still having problems w/ dhcp

I have Anubis, the dc + dns + dhcp + ect server, on 192.168.2.2
my router, w/ dhcp off, on 192.168.2.1

Scope1 (192.168.2.10-192.168.2.254)

I have another computer, Thor, that i want to get connected to the domain but for some reason dhcp is not assigning it an ip address and i get the "limited connection" message after it tries forever.

After assigning a static ip address of 192.168.2.10 on Thor:

The computers can ping each other

I can access the internet (shared via the router) on both.

I am out of ideas.... i think next time i'll get a book

[dglienna]

have you tried not using a static address, and letting DHCP assign it automatically? It should give it .10 anyways. I think thats all I did with W2K to get internet access to 2 other boxes.
before that I used Internet Connection Sharing. but I doubt that you need that.

[<ABX]

Yes... i did have it on assign automatically but all i was getting was "limited connection" eg it couldnt automatically assign an ip.

So then i assigned a static ip....

Edit: Me is such an idiot.....

forgot that Active Directory doesnt let dhcp assign an address to a computer that is not in ad.

[<ABX]

meh....

This is starting to get annoying.

Thought I everything working good but now something else is wrong...

im pretty sure it has something to do w/ local dns not querying the internet properly.

Type "http://www.vbforums.com" w/o a problem and it loads pretty quickly...

but if i type "http://www.google.ca" gives a "Cannot find server or DNS Error" (In IE)

but if i get the ip address (by pinging the server) and then "http://216.239.57.107" it works perfectly....

Hotmail takes a while... but works

Would this have something to do with time-outs? why one server will work and the other wont?

Under Forwarders Tab ( teh DNS console, Server Properties)

I have my routers ip (my router is the gateway to the net) under the "All other DNS domains" Entry.

I tried changing the timeout here to 30 seconds which did not help so i put it back.... recursion is Not Disabled.

Edit: Dammit... it started working 30 seconds after posting this....
meh... i'll explain in a bit....

[dglienna]

do you have the box checked for 'automatically detect settings'?
plus, I don't think that the router is a DNS server. Use the address that was given to you by your ISP, in fact, you can use ANY DNS server. Just use the quickest one.

[<ABX]

this may explain why i thought i needed to use the routers ip.



Its working now that i have the dns forworded to 192.168.0.1 (Router #1)

Eventually, when i feel that i understand this good enough, i will be moving the rest of my network to the domain.

[dglienna]

Add the Checkmark and the word [RESOLVED] to the subject of the first post in your thread
if your question has been answered satisfactorily.

Glad that it's working.

[<ABX]

Yeah... seems to be working ok....

Thanx for the help...