Newb: Setting up a static IP address on my server

[Tech bud]

Alright total newb here with servers, I got one in the house with Server 2008 rt, I'm playing around with different roles, I have a file server set and a Streaming media Server set up to stream my movies to my xbox.

I'm trying to learn what all the roles do and I'm installing the DHCP server. It tells me that I need to set up a static IP address before installing the role.

I have the book Windows Server Administration Fundamentals, one of the Proficiency Assesments explains how to configure the Network adapter.

I set the IP address: 172.24.1.01
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 172.24.1.20
DNS Server: 172.24.24.1.30

But the I lose my remote desktop and can not longer connect to my server or access my files. Is there something I'm missing here?

When I changed it, I connected it to my other monitor and in the Display adapter stated, no network access. Such a noob. lol

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

If your server is performing DHCP, typically you need to set the DNS server to the servers IP or 127.0.0.1 which is an alias for the servers IP. Also what is your default gateway? The server IP cannot have two digits for the last octet (01) It would be 1. Also your current DNS server address has 5 octets or groups of numbers, but can only have 4. I would imagine on of the 24's was accidentally duplicated.

 

[4ycr]

A few thing I don't get with your setting
172.24.1.01 is your server
172.24.1.20 is your router
172.24.1.30 what is this? Usually this is either your router (current DHCP) or server.

your server might not be registering with your DNS and this is stopping your access

So the static would be:
I set the IP address: 172.24.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 172.24.1.20
DNS Server: 172.24.1.1


Or if you are still going to use 172.24.1.30 for DNS make sure you have added a record with the server name and IP address

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Typically the gateway has an address on the first or last IP in the range..
Are you sure the gateway is .20? Normally they're .1, or sometimes .254.

Is this server a domain controller? Which means it's running DNS? If the server did have DCPROMO run, you need to have it use itself for DNS, NOT the router or ISPs DNS servers. And it should hand out its own IP to clients via DHCP as their DNS server.

 

[Tech bud]

Alright confusing, think I'm going to start with the book Computer Networks. All the tutorials I find online or even the book just say how to change it. But really don't explain, why. And the network book was talking about octets and seems to give a better overview of how the network functions.

So the default Gateway is the IP address of the router?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

So the default Gateway is the IP address of the router?

For most purposes...yes.
The gateway is the path out of this network...to get to another network (in most cases..that "other network" is the internet.)

 

[Tech bud]

Alright got it, i ended up just using IPCONFIG then using the IP address and default gateways already assigned. Then used the DNS server settings already assigned by the router.

 

[seedubya]

If you're going to run an AD Domain then you need to set up the DNS Server Role on your AD Server and assign that DNS to all devices attached to the AD domain, preferably by dhcp server role on the AD server.

Ideal first test setup is

Router (x.x.x.254) DHCP off
AD Server (x.x.x.1) DHCP Server and DNS Server roles on. DNS forwarders need to be set up to either your ISP DNS server or some other that is accessible from your network
Clients then receive their ip address and dns server address from your AD server.