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Windows Server 2003 Network Administration
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Windows Server 2003 Network Administration

by Craig Hunt, Roberta Bragg
September 2005
Beginner
696 pages
23h 47m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Basic TCP/IP Configuration

This chapter covers the configuration of the basic components of Windows Server TCP/IP networking. Installing and configuring other aspects of Windows Server networking—the Remote Access Service, Active Directory, Domain Name Service, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, and so on—are covered in later chapters. You use the procedures described in this chapter when you install Windows Server 2003, but you can return to them later to make changes to your network configuration.

Typically, the majority of the computers on a network obtain the network configuration from a DHCP server. In Chapter 5 we look at how to install and configure a DHCP server so that you can provide the TCP/IP configuration for the bulk of systems on the network. However, it is important for a network administrator to know how to set and change the configuration values directly, both because it is a basic skill that every network administrator must have and because there are always some number of systems that require direct configuration.

Not only is the how of basic configuration covered, this chapter also covers the what and why. What configuration values are required and why specific values are selected are discussed.

Network Device Configuration

During the initial Windows Server 2003 installation, the Network Settings window appears. It presents two choices:

  1. Use the “Typical settings” selection to obtain the configuration via DHCP. Most clients use this setting. As a network ...

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