Configuring Windows Client

Configuring Windows Client

The task is to create a network in Package Tracer and configure windows client and DNS, DHCP, WEB servers and create my own internet website ThanosCorporation.com.

So we start by connecting the first server with a network cable to a switch on port 1. After connecting them, we wait a little while until it gets connected and lights up green. Then we go to the server on “config” and then “settings” and we will name the first server as “Web-Server”. Now we will add another server and connect it to the switch on port 2 (same process there), naming it DHCP Server. The third server we connect to port 3 of the switch and call it DNS server. We also connect a computer with cable to the switch on port 4. It can be named PC0.

Now we can start with the configuration.

So we go to the web server on the “desktop”, then “IP configuration” and press “static”. Here we will set the IP address which is in this case 192.168.1.1 with a netmask 255.255.255.0, default gateway will be 192.168.1.1 and DNS server 192.168.1.3, then we are finish here.

Going to DHCP server now, (same process there on “static”) we will set IP address 192.168.1.2 with the same netmask, default gateway and DNS server addresses.

And then we will go into the DNS server on “static” and will set IP address 192.168.1.3 with the same netmask, default gateway and DNS addresses.

After all these steps we will go to the computer “IP configuration” and press “static”, there we will add this IP address 192.168.1.4 with the same netmask and the same addresses.

In the DHCP server now we will go under “services” then “DHCP” and type in default gateway this address 192.168.1.1 and DNS address 192.168.1.3 and then press save and also press the “service on”.

Then we go into the Web server on “services” on “HTTP” and there appear some files. Next step is to choose to go into the Index.html on “edit” and there we will delete everything there all the way until the word “html” and will write there <hr1>ThanosCorporation.com<hr1/> and then save it.

Now on the DNS server we go to “services” then to “DNS” and type in ThanosCorporation.com on the name and “add” URL address 192.168.1.1 press the add then the save and then “DNS service on”.

So now we have entered all the addresses and we will now see if we have managed to connect them, by going into the computer PC0 “desktop”, we open the “command prompt” and there we will type “IPCONFIG /ALL”.

We see that the computer's IP address is correct and the default gateway and DNS server addresses are visible but not the DHCP server address, it is set to 0. So to change that we will have to go back out to the computer's “IP configuration” and press “DHCP” instead of “static”. Wait a few seconds and we get the assigned address. We now go into the “command prompt” again and type “IPCONFIG /ALL” and this time we can see that even the DHCP server address is visible and we know that everything is active.

Finally, we will go to the (PC0) computer, on the “browser” and type thanoscorporation.com and we can see there that the website is up and running, we can also try to type in the website's IP address 192.168.1.1 instead for the website's name to double-check if it works the other way around.