ADDS and DNS - samuel-richardson/Sam-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki
AD
- Configure vm to run on lan.
- Sart server manager.
- Connect to network with FW as a default gateway and change hostname.
- Restart, check hostname and network connectivity.
Install ADDS Role
- In server manager, hit manage > add roles and features.
- Add Active Directory Domain Service
- Promote server to a domain controller. Make sure the name change is applied.
- Root domain name is samuel.local
- Restart
DNS
- After reboot DNS should be installed.
- Go to DNS manager.
- Right-click Forward lookup zone and add a New host.
- Will get a DNS error
- Now, in reverse Lookup Zones, add a New Zone
- Identify the reverse lookup zone by entering the network id
- Now uncheck PTR, Apply, then recheck PTR apply to do a reverse lookup
- This should make the reverse lookup zone 5.0.10.
Create users
- From server manager got to AD DS and Go to Active Directory Users and Computers
- In the user folder, add 2 new users. One with ADM and one without.
- Add the admin account to the Domain Admins group.
WKS 01
- set DNS to ad's IP address
- Log in to wks01 and go to where the name would be changed and change the group to the AD domain.
- Restart
- Should be able to log into wks01 with adm and unprivileged accounts.
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