0 TCP IP STEP 8

The Select Network Protocol dialog box will appear). Scroll down the list of available protocols until you see TCP/IP Protocol. Double-click TCP/IP Protocol or click the protocol and click OK to add it to your network configuration.

You may be shown a dialog box like that in, asking whether you have a DHCP Server on your network and if you want to use it for dynamic IP address assignment. In most cases, you’ll want your server to have a static IP address, so click No even if you have a DHCP server on your network.

Next, the Network Protocol dialog box asks where it can find the Windows NT installation files it needs to complete the TCP/IP setup. They should be in the same place you installed your Windows NT from, usually your CD-ROM drive. Insert your CD-ROM, enter the drive letter in the dialog box as shown in and click Continue. TCP/IP Setup copies the necessary files to your hard drive and closes the dialog box to continue the setup procedure.

Now that all the necessary files have been copied, you need to set the properties of the TCP/IP drivers. Windows NT TCP/IP setup will continue by rebuilding the registry entries and bindings for the network. It will detect that TCP/IP has not been configured and bring up the TCP/IP Properties dialog box
The first tab is the IP Address tab. Make sure your network card is displayed in the Adapter list. Next, select Specify IP Address and fill in the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway fields. The Advanced button presents a dialog box that lets you add more IP addresses and gateways and manage some aspects of TCP/IP security. Because we assume that this host has only one gateway and one IP address, we won’t go into the Advanced dialog box at this time, but we cover the TCP/IP security settings later in this book.

Click the DNS tab to display the DNS properties First, type www, which is the host name. Now fill in the Domain field with your domain name or your ISP’s domain name; remember, we’re using "company.com" for this example. Now click Add under the DNS Service Search Order list box. You will see a dialog box where you enter an IP address of your first DNS server. After you have entered the first DNS server’s IP address, click OK, then click Add again to add your second DNS server’s IP address, if you have one. Windows NT lets you specify up to three DNS server addresses.

The Domain Suffix Search Order provides a list of domain names to search when you specify only a host name. Suppose you want to ping a host named mail.ntshop.net (ping sends a test packet to a host and waits for a response indicating that the packet arrived successfully). Open a DOS console window, type the command ping mail, and the TCP/IP protocol automatically appends your default domain name to the end, making it mail.ntshop.net, where mail is called the prefix, and ntshop.net is the suffix. Adding domain names to this list allows other domains to be searched automatically for a host with this same name. This feature can be very useful on some networks; however, for this installation example, we’ll leave this list blank.

Click the WINS Address tab to display the WINS Address properties, as shown in. Type the IP address of your WINS server in the Primary WINS server box. If your network has more than one WINS server, type the IP address of your secondary WINS server in the