Re: newbie questions

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Herb Martin wrote:

What is your ultimate goal with AD? Admin a real domain
you already own (e.g., upgrade from NT), get a job, just
curious, get a promotion where there is already an AD
domain, etc.?

Hi Herb,

Thanks a lot for the reply. I want to hook up 9 machines(5 Win XP
Professional, 1 Win 98, 3 Win 2k Prof. with SP4). Hence, I want to know
Active Directory so I can create domains allowing users to share files
and printers.

This is actually pretty easy so we could just tell you
to go ahead and do it, instead of killing a couple of
DCs first but you can do both and if you have to re-install
then it won't matter if you don't put TOO much work into
the domain client users and computers for the first few days.

I have heard Win 98 cannot be connected so am not clear
how to deal with it.

Someone told you wrong. Win98 can associate with a domain
to user printers and file shares. For Win2003 it needs the
AD Client Upgrade (on the Server CDRom in Clients subdirectory
but you want the NEW one on the MS web site.)

The AD Client Upgrade is also known as DSClient but
get the one for 9x and not NT.

You really should have this anyway even if you only have
Win2000 though anyway.


The machine running Win 98 is slow on 98 itself.

Doesn't matter if you need it to be part of the domain
sharing.

This is the ONLY machine you should NOT create a
Computer account -- 9x machine do NOT use NT/AD
computer accounts when they associate with a domain,
they only use the domain name in place of their workgroup
name.

It cannot run a Win2k/XP and I don't have the budget to upgrade it.

Ok. But machines to run XP can be had for practically
nothing. There are tons of Pentium 3s and such around.

Hence, I went through the O Reilly book. Your post was very helpful and
I am grateful for that.

We'll help if you keep posting questions.

DCPromo your Windows Server and play with it.

You really cannot hurt anything permanently by doing
that. You can always DCPromo a second time to remove
the domain as many cycles as you wish but truth is you
probably won't mess anything up.

(And remember that DNS stuff I gave you last.)

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]


Thanks a lot.



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