The AD management tools are just client tools. They can run anywhere that
there is network connectivity to the directory. Most things you need to
do
to AD can be done remotely.
You can have AD install and configure DNS during setup if you want, so you
can get a self-contained machine. If it isn't networked to anything,
you'd
need to install your code on there as well to do your testing, but
hopefully
that's pretty obvious.
Note that AD designs can be pretty complicated with multiple domains and
forests and such, so make sure that the simple test environment you set up
will provide a valid test bed for the environment this will actually get
used in.
Joe K.
--
Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services
Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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"GeezerButler" <kurtrips@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Well I can see a AD Management Tool in my Control Panel. I guess I had
> assumed that there is an AD installed, but i guess this tool is just an
AD
> client. I guess you are right, I dont think there's actually an AD. How
do
> i check this?
>
> Assuming I get hold of a Server 2003 machine, would there be an AD and
DNS
> server available on it? (This is assuming that it will be a standalone
> machine with no networking to any other server.)
>
> Regards,
> Geez
>
> "Joe Kaplan" <joseph.e.kaplan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:OvOsbH54IHA.4272@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>I guess I don't understand the purpose of having a DNS server if you
don't
>>have an AD. I thought you said you needed to add some test users to AD.
>>Is this some other AD?
>>
>> Basically, you need to use the DNS server for the AD you want to talk
to.
>> Setting up your own DNS server isn't going to help if it doesn't know
>> anything about the AD you plan to access.
>>
>> If you only have a Vista machine, you can't install AD. You would need
>> to access AD somewhere else, possibly via a VPN to the client you are
>> building this for? I really don't know what to tell you here.
>>
>> Joe K.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
>> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services
>> Programming"
>> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
>> --
>> "GeezerButler" <kurtrips@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:98586EDF-75C9-4BFA-92F3-F8B0532722A9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Hi,
>>> Yeah it seems to me AD requires a DNS server. Unfortunately, I just
have
>>> a one-man environment here. I am using Vista Home which is connected
to
>>> the internet. The ISP's DNS server is not a Windows one so its
useless.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I dont have a Server machine. Doesnt Vista or XP have a
>>> DNS server? In the Windows services, I could find a DNS client but not
a
>>> DNS server. Is there some way of setting up a sort of a dummy DNS
server
>>> on Vista or XP?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> GeezerButler
>>>
>>> "Joe Kaplan" <joseph.e.kaplan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message
>>> news:efGMXl34IHA.784@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> What are you running AD on for testing purposes? AD doesn't work
>>>> without sup****t from DNS, so typically you always have to have a DNS
>>>> server to have a functional AD. If you did something like created a
>>>> virtual machine running Windows server and installed AD using the
>>>> defaults, you would get DNS with that. If you are needing to access
>>>> someone else's AD for testing, you would use their DNS server.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
>>>> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services
>>>> Programming"
>>>> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
>>>> --
>>>> "GeezerButler" <kurtrips@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> news:3B79310C-B7D1-4A0E-A043-EF50CD628203@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> My networking skills are non-existant, so beware of stupidity.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am writing software which needs to read users from Active
Directory.
>>>>> I have written some code and I need to test it. I am running a Vista
>>>>> Home machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to add some test values into Active Directory users but it
>>>>> needs to connect to a domain/domain controller. When I try to add a
>>>>> DNS server using my own computer, it says DNS server is not running.
>>>>> When I try to add a DNS server using my ISP, it says DNS server is
not
>>>>> a Windows 2003 Server.. etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So basically, is there anyting I can do to setup some sort of a
local
>>>>> DNS server to just get my code tested?
>>>>>
>>>>> This post is also at
>>>>>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing/browse_thread/thread/1716b7e08eae9bf2#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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