Active directory and DHCP are not the same services; they are intended to do different things. DHCP manages IP addressing and AD manages accounts, groups, users, etc. They don't need to work together.
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Active Directory Domain Services. in server 2008 AD work as a service
windows 2000 and above like 2k3 all editions, 2k8 with requisite Hardware. we need to make it Domain controller for active directory to work. We install AD to make it DC.
ya it will work using same steps of installations
Are you wanting to add a Mac to your Windows Active Directory domain? Is that what you mean by workgroup?
because it is the pre condition for active directory to work. the work of dns is to find host( machine in the network ) with help of IP or hostname( computer name) and dns stores all the info about it DNS makes ip addresses readable to us, for example instead of 172.63.187 we would type www.google.com........ it helps us out without it we'd have to memorize numbers to get web sites
DNS is always configured first for ad to work properly
15ft is the longest you can go without using an active cable, and yes this will work for a printer.
What i can make out is AD is a proprietary concept developed by Microsoft and LDAP is more open and more general protocol for managing directories in a client-server organization. AD features are limited in that it supports only windows based machine whereas LDAP supports multi platform computers to access directories in the server. Correct me if i am wrong. Sandeep Paudel sandeep_paudel{at}hotmail.com
Generally you want to set-up DNS on your server, then set-up an Active Directory. Active Directory wont work without DNS. Now go to your XP machine, right click 'My Computer'/properties/computer name/ then click on the 'change' button. Type in the name of your domain. It will ask for admin credentials, provide them. Now your part of the domain.. or in other words.. connected to a windows 2003 server.
The benefit would be to automatically assign network addresses to clients that need them to work on a local area network. Without DHCP you would have to assign each device an address, subnet mask, and default gateway, plus DNS and WINS server addresses, which can be time consuming and error prone. With DHCP, most of those problems disappear.
Dynamic Host Controller Protocol, Which controlls the host in the form of protocol.