Yes, server roles are more important in 2008. You install two server
roles for AD and RRAS rather than running two wizards. The RRAS setup is
different because there are major changes to RRAS in 2008 with the addition
of NAP.
"gtherreault_montreal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message news:EC2AAEE5-E7BD-4543-9120-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well, I have to disagree.
>
> I finally got this to work by doing the following.
>
> 1) Clean install of WS08
> 2) Added Active Directory Domain Services Role
> DNS was configured when adding the role
> I configured static IP's for both NIC's on server
> 3) Added DHCP Role
>
> After this could not browse the Internet on any client, but I could
> connect
> with RDP to the server or a file share to the server with UNC.
>
> 4) Add Network Policy and Access Services Role
> Configured Routing and Remote Access, NAT
> Selected 1st NIC as the connection to Internet
>
> Once the above was configured, everything worked fine.
>
> So basically what I meant before is that the above options were configured
> by a Wizard in Windows Server 2003, but now you have to know which roles
> to
> select to get it to work.
>
>
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
>> That is not correct. You do not have to do it all manually. You do it
>> be
>> installing a server role.
>>
>> "gtherreault_montreal" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote
>> in message news:A0C20C39-1DA1-4E3C-9231-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I installed WS08 RC1 and tried to configure a new forest and domain
>> >without
>> > luck.
>> >
>> > With WS03 it was a simple task of running a wizard that configured AD,
>> > DNS
>> > and DHCP without much user intervention and it works everytime.
>> >
>> > Now with WS08 RC1, everything is done manually and I keep getting stuck
>> > on
>> > the configuration of the static IP on both nic's on the server.
>> >
>> > For IPV4, NIC one has a static 192.168.0.100 and connects to the
>> > external
>> > WAN through the 192.168.0.1 gateway, and NIC two has a 192.168.2.1 for
>> > the
>> > DCHP to assign ip's to the clients on the network.
>> >
>> > For IPV6 I have no static IP configured for the NIC's, as I have no
>> > clue
>> > how
>> > to do this (maybe this is my problem).
>> >
>> > From the clients I get an ip in the 192.168.2.x range and I can ping
>> > the
>> > server and RDP to the server, open shares on the server, but I can't
>> > browse
>> > the Internet.
>> >
>> > From the server I can, see all the clients, RDP to the clients, open
>> > shares
>> > on the server and browse the Internet without a problem.
>> >
>> > What could I be doing that is wrong?
>>
>>
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