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Chipman; I will not be hookup w/the outside world. This is strictly a lab setup. My server id the PDC the rest wil start out as bdc's and after while will be promoted (each for awhile) I finally did get the setup to work. As Hewissa had said. Now all is fine. I thank all of you for your...

This server is the start of a classroom network. I am trying to go through all the labs that the students will be using. This way i hopefully will avoid many problems for the students and myself.

Don't you need one along w/DNS in order to get AD installed. No where in the book does it mention that you need to have a hub, null cable or network in order to set the server.

If i ping 192.168.0.1 (the nic address) i get a time out. If i ping 127.0.0.1 i get 4 lines of good reply. There has tobe a way to setup this server w/o a hub. i don't think MS would have schools doing w/o a hub if it isn't possible.

Wow, you are all great! Okay here is wha I am attempting to do. I have a pc not connected to any hub or network. Am trying to make it a win2k server (PDC) as it will be the Primary one on my classroom network after I am done. I will name the server wwtc01 (western wisconsin tech college 01)...

I have tried running dcpromo and always had an error that said no domain listed. configure dns or find correct domain. thanks for your patience:)

Wow what great replies. By stand alone I mean it is not connected to any network. So if I connect it to a hub, i will be able to get it to join a the domain? Is this why, when i ping wwtc01(server) i get an ip address of 127.0.0.1?

It is just a new server and i am trying to connect to the new domain

I am using the ALS book form Microsoft. Windows 2000 Server. It came w/120 day server license. i have tried to setup win 2000 server, as a stand alone,on a pc. more than enough mem, etc. I get all the way through the setup but when i try to join the domain it keeps saying no such domain. if i...