This article reprinted: Http://www.cnblogs.com/zfanlong1314/admin/EditPosts.aspx?opt=1 today teaches you to build active with Windows Server2003 system The directory domain controller, the client is the XP system. Prepare the tool for Windows Server2003 system disk.
Control Panel--management tool--Configure your server, the wizard points to the next step
I'm checking for a second.
Custom configuration, Next.
Select the domain controller, next.
The Ad Wizard appears, click Next.
The Ad Installation wizard appears, click Next.
Select the controller for the new domain.
Select a new domain forest.
Configure DNS, which is configured here together or you can choose to configure later.
Fill in the domain name you need.
Here earlier Windows users were using NetBIOS to mark the domain, I wrote here Yazi, next.
The Active Directory database and log suggestions are placed on other drive characters, click Browse to find the drive letter you want to put and the specific folder.
Specifies the folder on which the system volume is shared, it is recommended to place the other drive letter, but the main letter must be in the NTFS-formatted partition.
Select one of the following: Only with Windows2000 or Windows Server2003
Enter the restore password, which is the password for the directory Restore mode, not the system administrator's password.
Determine the error after point next.
Wait a minute.
AD Installation Complete
Prompts you to start.
A one-line login option appears after startup.
Finally, you are prompted: This server is selected as a domain controller, click Finish.
Start-Programs-Administrative Tools---Find Active Directory Users and Computers.
Then expand the domain name, find the right mouse button--new--User
Create a name, shorthand. Then create the user's login name. Don't write in Chinese.
Select Password never expires, password is: English + number + symbol. Otherwise prompts you password not and specification.
Finally click Finish.
The user you just created appears.
Then configure the client, My Computer properties-select the network ID or change the line, note that the computer name is preferably in English. Select the domain, and then enter the domain you want to join.
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You are then prompted to enter the user account and password that you want to join the domain.
Prompt you to join the success.
Prompts you to start the computer before it is valid.
After starting the client is not found another line of login options, note that the user name here is the domain administrator of your account, not your previous system logins.
After going in my Computer properties, the computer name is not changed. The network ID and change options are also grayed out.
All right, the building of the domain server is over here, and we're not seeing it, so let's try it.
Windows Server 2003 AD