LevelOne GNS-8000B user manual

Please make sure you have enabled the Active Directory Service on the Windows Server and check the following items:

1.DNS Server setting on GNS-8000B has to be directed to AD server.

2.GNS-8000B and AD server can synchronize only if their time difference is less than 5 minutes.

3.GNS-8000B and AD server will synchronize each 5 minute. To configure the settings manually, GNS-8000B has to be set as standalone mode and then added to AD domain.

4.When adding GNS-8000B to AD domain, please login by

domain_name\Username. GNS-8000B local user cannot login AD domain.

5.Inter-network segments can be used.

6.If you are using NT Domain, please select standalone mode when you want to upgrade the system, then join AD domain.

7.It is suggested to use Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, or Windows 2003 Service Pack 1.

8.When GNS-8000B is added to AD domain, the authority of “everyone” will not work, “everyone” is the original account of GNS-8000B, but doesn’t include AD. Therefore the authority has to be reset.

9.The DNS setting on Windows 2000 server should be added as “Active Directory DNS”, the server should be rebooted after DNS setting is set.

10.You should use the full domain name on the AD setting of GNS-8000B. For example, if your FQDN name of AD server is “ad.test.com.tw”, you should use “test.com.tw” as the ad domain setting on GNS-8000B.

11.The DNS setting on AD server should have the IP of AD server itself.

12.You must change the password of “administrator” after you create “Active Directory” service on AD server.

13.The DNS server on the AD Server should have two records on it. For example, AD Server Name: 2003tc.testad.com

DNS record on DNS Server

2003tc.testad.com A 192.168.1.100

testad.com A 192.168.1.100

One is “A record” for AD server, and the other is the domain “A record” for DNS queries.

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