Turnkey Linux Primary Domain Controller for Windows Setup Guide

Linux Server for Windows Clients

In this guide we will show you how to setup a Turnkey Linux Primary Domain Controller (PDC) appliance to serve Windows clients.

What you will need:

• Turnkey Linux PDC Appliance .ISO file or VM

• Software to burn the .ISO such as ImgBurn (Freeware)

• Either an empty, bare metal, physical server with networking or

• Virtual machine (VM) application such as Virtualbox / VMWare etc

Installation:

For this guide we will be using VMWare but the installation is the same for a physical server.

OK let's go:

• Power up the server and insert the .ISO CD (make sure your server is configured to boot from CD / DVD)

• You will now be presented with the following screen:

• Please choose Install to hard disk

• Setup will proceed

• You will now be prompted on what you want to do with the disk partition

• To use the full disk select: Guided - use entire disk

• You will then recieve a warning about destroying ALL data on the disk, if thats OK then select Yes

• Partitions will now be formatted and installation will continue

Security:

• You will now be prompted to enter a password for the Root

• Choose a sensible, secure password and remember it

• Retype the password

Domain / Samba Setup:

• You will now be presented with the option to name your Samba domain

• For this example we will leave the default of Domain as shown:

• Now enter a password for the Samba administrator account as shown:

• Retype the Samba administrator account password:

• Installation should now be complete - You will now be prompted to restart as shown:

• Installation should now search for any updates - Be patient and let it run.
• You will now be presented with your login IP addresses as shown:

You can now access your server using the IP addresses as shown and you will be presented with the following screen:

• From the above screen you can login and start to administer your domain with computers, users, groups, shares etc.
• In our next guide we will show you how to add Windows client computers to your Linux PDC
• Should you have any questions etc with this guide then please Contact Us