dns/dhcp/ad at home

[stiej]

hi, wonder if someone can help me please. firstly i hope im posting in the right forum, i think so, cos my situation relies heavily on dns and dhcp.

I have a 4port wireless router with builtin modem for my adsl connection. it's currently set up using nat, and it is currently my dhcp server and dns server.

I also have one wireless laptop, which picks up the router automatically, get's its IP etc and surfs the net just fine.

Now...I want to change the whole setup to include my desktop machine on which ive just installed win2k and active directory along with dhcp/dns. the desktop is
wireless too and could previously see the router/internet.

What i want for experience/practise at setting up such things, as well as a domestic infrastructure very much like what you see at work, is this....my desktop machine becomes the "always-on" server (complete with SQLServer2k which ive installed too), the lapto joins and is part of it's domain via it's wireless connection, and both laptop and desktop can see the internet via my router.

Also, i want to plug in the girlfriend's work laptop (wired only) into the router and she'd only require internet access via the router.

so then...what device/machine should be the dns server, which should be the dhcp server and how do all machines to get the internet access from the router (which is the thing with the built in automatically-dialing modem)???

I'd really appreciate any direction (even to another forum)

many thanks.

 

[nsantin]

Server IP:
-Make sure you set a static IP on your server, keep it out of the DHCP scope. (ie. 192.168.1.10, then set the scope to 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.255)

DHCP:
-Setup the local DHCP server, set the gateway to the router, set the DNS Servers as 1. Server, 2.Router (for fail-over), set the scope to the existing scope (assuming you want to keep it the same)
-Login to your VPm Router and shut down/diable DHCP services.
-Activate/Authorize the DHCP server. Do a IPConfig /release, then an IPCONFIG /renew from the local PC clients.

DNS:
-Setup Forwarding on the Server to forward requests to the Router
Are you planning on hosting a name server? If so then you need to setup a zone and do some port forwarding. Goto

http://www.dnsreport.com

for help on that

As for your gf's laptop, all she will need to do is plug into the switch and she shoudl get servered and IP. As long as she is not part of the domain then she will not have access to any files on the server, but she will get access to the web. BTW, just for symantics, she is not plugging into "the router" she is plugging into a switch. The router is on the WAN side.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Make sure your dns on the server is pointing to itself, and the clients are pointing to the dns server. What are the OS's? If you have anything before W2K, you might want to look at WINS. If all is after W2K, don't worry about it. Make sure you get all the updates from msn for the server. Good luck.

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[stiej]

cheers guys! that's amazin help. will find some time this week to put it together. thanks again