How do you setup the work stations on your network to work with windows server Active Directory system?
so ive found that thats what they do but how do they setup the computers to login to the server?
How do you setup the work stations on your network to work with windows server Active Directory system?
so ive found that thats what they do but how do they setup the computers to login to the server?
This is a pretty complex question. I’m just going to give the basics.
The workstations have to be members of the active directory domain. You can do that in the “system” section in the control panel if you are doing it manually. It’s in the “Advanced” area under “Computer Name”.
The active directory must have accounts created for each machine in the domain, or they will not be able to connect to it.
The active directory must have accounts created for each user who is going to be logging on.
If these things are set correctly, your workstations should be able to log in to the active directory.
on your windows server create first your domain. i will not discuss anymore how to create a domain. now make sure that they do run in the network with the proper ip addresses and preferred DNS server. to test it the workstation must ping the server (in workstation use the administrator or default user of it) then assign different ip addresses like 192.168.1.X ( X should be different from each computer) it will automatically have its subnet mask then in preferred DNS server input 192.167.1.1 in all the computer
Take note: these are just sample IP addresses.
next step is you go to the workstations My computer then on properties go to the computer name column and then click the change in join in domain, just ignore the computer name and then click on the domain and type the domain u created in the server and your all set and done. you may now login to the workstation using the users you have created in your active directory.