You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group for the local computer to install and configure TCP/IP.
While you are installing or configuring TCP/IP, you can read the hint bar at the bottom of each TCP/IP dialog box for information about a selected item, or choose the Help button to get detailed online information.
Windows NT Setup displays a message prompting for the full path to the Windows NT distribution files.
You can specify a drive letter for floppy disks, a CD-ROM drive, or a shared network directory, or you can specify the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path name for a network resource, such as \\NTSETUP\MASTER.
All necessary files are copied to your hard disk.
Note
If you are installing from floppy disks, Windows NT Setup might request disks more than once. This behavior is normal and not an error condition.
Follow the directions provided in the online Help for these dialog boxes. For additional details, see "Configuring SNMP" later in this chapter, and see also Chapter 16, "Using the Microsoft FTP Server Service."
If you selected the Enable Automatic DHCP Configuration option and a DHCP server is available on your network, all configuration settings for TCP/IP are completed automatically, as described in "Using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol" later in this chapter.
If you did not check the Enable Automatic DHCP Configuration option, continue with the configuration procedures described in "Configuring TCP/IP Manually" later in this chapter. TCP/IP must be configured in order to operate.
If you checked the DHCP Server Service or WINS Server Service options, you must complete the configuration steps described in Chapter 13, "Installing and Configuring DHCP Servers," and Chapter 14, "Installing and Configuring WINS Servers."
Table 11.1 Windows NT TCP/IP Installation Options
Option | Usage |
TCP/IP Internetworking | Includes the TCP/IP protocol, NetBIOS over TCP/IP and Windows Sockets interfaces, and the TCP/IP diagnostic utilities. These elements are installed automatically. |
Connectivity Utilities | Installs the TCP/IP utilities. Select this option to install the connectivity utilities described in Appendix A, "TCP/IP Utilities Reference." |
SNMP Service | Installs the SNMP service. Select this option to allow this computer to be administered remotely using management tools such as Sun Net Manager or HP Open View. This option also allows you to monitor statistics for the TCP/IP services and WINS servers using Performance Monitor, as described in Chapter 17, "Using Performance Monitor with TCP/IP Services." |
TCP/IP Network Printing Support | Enables this computer to print directly over the network using TCP/IP. Select this option if you want to print to UNIX print queues or TCP/IP printers that are connected directly to the network, as described in Chapter 18, "Internetwork Printing with TCP/IP." This option must be installed if you want to use the Lpdsvr service so that UNIX computers can print to Windows NT printers. |
FTP Server Service | Enables files on this computer to be shared over the network with remote computers that support FTP and TCP/IP (especially non-Microsoft network computers). Select this option if you want to use TCP/IP to share files with other computers, as described in Chapter 16, "Using the Microsoft FTP Server Service." |
Simple TCP/IP Services | Provides the client software for the Character Generator, Daytime, Discard, Echo, and Quote of the Day services. Select this option to allow this computer to respond to requests from other systems that support these protocols. |
DHCP Server Service | Installs the server software to support automatic configuration and addressing for computers using TCP/IP on your internetwork. This option is available only for Windows NT Server. Select this option if this computer is to be a DHCP Server, as described in Chapter 13, "Installing and Configuring DHCP Servers." If you select this option, you must manually configure the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for this computer. |
WINS Server Service | Installs the server software to support WINS, a dynamic name resolution service for computers on a Windows internetwork. This option is available only for Windows NT Server. Select this option if this computer is to be installed as a primary or secondary WINS server, as described in Chapter 14, "Installing and Configuring WINS Servers." Do not select this option if this computer will be a WINS proxy agent. |
Enable Automatic DHCP Configuration | Turns on automatic configuration of TCP/IP parameters for this computer. Select this option if there is a DHCP server on your internetwork to support dynamic host configuration. This option is the preferred method for configuring TCP/IP on most Windows NT computers. This option is not available if the DHCP Server Service or WINS Server Service option is selected. |
If you have trouble installing Microsoft TCP/IP on your computer, follow the suggestions in the error messages displayed on the screen. You can also use diagnostic utilities such as ping to isolate network hardware problems and incompatible configurations. For information, see Chapter 19, "Troubleshooting TCP/IP."
After TCP/IP is installed, the \systemroot\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC directory contains several files, including default HOSTS, NETWORKS, PROTOCOLS, QUOTES, and SERVICES files plus a sample LMHOSTS.SAM file that describes the format for this file.