Well everyone, I am at phase 4 of completing my project. This phase is part where i create the final network with everything working ready for testing by users. I was going to have a meeting with the supervisor but as I had a lot to do about setting up the server, we both agreed to change it to next Monday. So whats been happening so far this week:
I came into college and had a look at my gantt chart to see what needs doing for the week coming. I started to draw my final design of where everything is going to go, i completed this monday afternoon.
I then sorted out the lab by moving the server computer and the client computers around, so it now looks like what i have planned. After that I installed all the cabling to the main switch. Once i had done that, i pinged each machine to make sure all the computers are talking to each other and they did.
After i had done all of that, I started to install windows server 2008 on the computer. This attempt failed as it kept on coming up with and error of hardware and the screen resolution was not big enough. As this occured i had a mini meeting with the client to discuss this matter. We both agreed that windows server 2008 was not sutible for what we need because of two reason, the hardware of the server machine and that we were unsure if windows xp will support the new updated version of windows server. After the dicussion we have finally gone with windows server 2003, this is a trial version that I have got a few years ago.
I started to install windows server 2003, everthing was working and I finally got to the part where i deploy the services such as DHCP and File server etc. I first gave the server an IP address and I typed in the same IP address in the preffered DNS. I first installed the DHCP, then the active directory and during the installation of this, the DNS installed by itself. After making sure everything works, i tried to ping the server computer, IT COULD NOT CONTACT THE SERVER!!!, so i tried typing in the domain and apprently it was not there. So I checked all the cabling to make sure nothing came out and everthing was in. So i went to the other computers to check if i could connect to them but no luck. I looked at the active directory and remeber my supervisor from work experince saying you have to add in the computer first and then add the computer to the domain, so i did that and still no luck and still couldnt ping to the server.
I then resinstalled the xp machines just incase they were not installed correctly, once all the clint machines were installed with a fresh version of winodws xp, i tried it again and still no luck with the pinging on any computer. So i went back to the server and used my supervisors way of installing the services and that did not work either. This time it was coming near to the end of the day, i finally realise that project can have its ups and downs esciapally when a project will be used in the future.
I came into college and had a look at my gantt chart to see what needs doing for the week coming. I started to draw my final design of where everything is going to go, i completed this monday afternoon.
I then sorted out the lab by moving the server computer and the client computers around, so it now looks like what i have planned. After that I installed all the cabling to the main switch. Once i had done that, i pinged each machine to make sure all the computers are talking to each other and they did.
After i had done all of that, I started to install windows server 2008 on the computer. This attempt failed as it kept on coming up with and error of hardware and the screen resolution was not big enough. As this occured i had a mini meeting with the client to discuss this matter. We both agreed that windows server 2008 was not sutible for what we need because of two reason, the hardware of the server machine and that we were unsure if windows xp will support the new updated version of windows server. After the dicussion we have finally gone with windows server 2003, this is a trial version that I have got a few years ago.
I started to install windows server 2003, everthing was working and I finally got to the part where i deploy the services such as DHCP and File server etc. I first gave the server an IP address and I typed in the same IP address in the preffered DNS. I first installed the DHCP, then the active directory and during the installation of this, the DNS installed by itself. After making sure everything works, i tried to ping the server computer, IT COULD NOT CONTACT THE SERVER!!!, so i tried typing in the domain and apprently it was not there. So I checked all the cabling to make sure nothing came out and everthing was in. So i went to the other computers to check if i could connect to them but no luck. I looked at the active directory and remeber my supervisor from work experince saying you have to add in the computer first and then add the computer to the domain, so i did that and still no luck and still couldnt ping to the server.
I then resinstalled the xp machines just incase they were not installed correctly, once all the clint machines were installed with a fresh version of winodws xp, i tried it again and still no luck with the pinging on any computer. So i went back to the server and used my supervisors way of installing the services and that did not work either. This time it was coming near to the end of the day, i finally realise that project can have its ups and downs esciapally when a project will be used in the future.
The next update will be this friday!!!! See you then!!!
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