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In this video I show you how to create a file server for small and medium companies
The operating system used is Windows server and it is applicable to most versions of Windows server operating system
First of all I set up a static ip address for the server
In this example the server ip address is 192.168.1.254
After setting the static ip address I changed the server name
In this example the server name is sv1, which will be used later in this video
You will be asked to restart the server after renaming
Next I installed some more things for the server
The purpose I will turn the server into a Domain controller
Then make it a file server
And for easier resource management, I install additional File server resource manager
Upgrading a server to a domain controller requires domain configuration
You set up the domain according to your company or organization
Set recovery password
Then follow the steps above to complete the setup
The server will automatically restart and join the newly created domain
My server has been upgraded to a domain controller
You will see the ip address will be changed so I will edit it
I set the dns address to be the server's ip address
Next you set up DNS as above for the server
The purpose is the mapping between ip address and hostname
Specifically in this video will map between ip address 192.168.1.254 and hostname is sv1
Use command prompt to check dns settings
That's it, dns has been set up for the server
To divide resources for everyone in your company, divide them into Organizational Units, groups, and users
Then create accounts for each person
Everyone will be in a certain group
In this example I add a new Organizational Unit named New York
Next I created two more groups named IT and Sale
The IT team has 2 members, John and Jennifer
Members of the IT group cannot access the data of the Sales group and vice versa
Next I set up sharing of the server's hosting resources for the groups and their members
The server has two hard drives, one of which stores the Windows operating system
The remaining hard drive is used to store data of IT and Sales groups
This is a new unpartitioned hard drive so I initialized and partitioned it
I formatted it as NTFS and named it Storage
Next I set up shared hosting as above
I choose partition D to share for IT and Sales groups
This is the path for users to access the shared folder
You set it up so that users who don't have permissions to the folder won't discover the folder over the network
Having set up sharing, next I create folders for each group
In the folder named DATA I create a new folder IT and folder Sale
For the folder named IT I set the edit permission to the IT group
So John and Jennifer have edit rights to this folder
Sales group members do not have permission to access the data of the folder named IT
Similar to the folder named Sale
John and Jennifer cannot access the folder named Sale
This protects the privacy of groups within the same company or organization
In addition, it also makes data management easier
Next I will introduce one advantage when deploying domain
The IT folder will automatically map to the computers of the members of the IT group
You don't need to create a network drive map on the client side, it will automatically generate the corresponding username
To do that, you create a new group policy as above
User configuration
Preferences
Windows settings
Drive Maps
New
Next you set the path, choose the character for the drive
Reconnect
You update the settings with the above command
Time to check the basic settings
From a client I join the domain
If you want to join a domain, you need to set up a static ip address for it
You set the dns ip address to be the server's ip address
192.168.1.254
After setting up a static ip address, I joined the domain as above
I use john's account to join domain
You will be asked to restart your Widows computer to ensure successful domain join
You now use john's username and password to log in to your computer and join the domain
Something interesting is about to happen
Your computer will appear a new drive
So your file server is up and running
John can create new files and upload files to the server
It's bad if John uploads a lot of large files and takes up all of the server's resources
That's undesirable so I'll set a limit for groups
There are several limit templates for you to use
You use one of them or create a new one if you want
Here I will use an existing template and set it up for the IT group
Jennifer and John can only upload up to 10GB of data
Next I will prevent them from uploading multimedia files like audio and video
I also prevent them from uploading executables against a folder called IT
You set a limit for the folder named Sale if you want
As you can see the drive has only 10GB capacity, just like the limit I set up
Here I have introduced the basic steps to create a file server for small organization
I set up a report for a folder called DATA to monitor the server's resources
Thanks to the report, you will know how much storage resources are used by teams and plan to upgrade if resources are running low.
I want to get the report twice in a week
I then edited the DNS settings to make sure the clients could access the internet
Thus I have introduced the basic steps for you to create a file server for small company
From here you will have advanced steps to deploy the server for your company
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