is this possible?

I would like to set up activedirectory on a windows server 2003 machine. I would like to make it so that computers can connect to it over the Internet, not just the LAN.

I have:

• Windows Server 2003
• Broadband Internet
• A domain with unlimited CNAME and A

 

I searched this at start help and support center "create an active directory on server"

There is alot to this read up...

Heres a start:

Creating a Windows Server 2003 domain controller in a Windows 2000 domain or forest

The errors that are described in the "Symptoms" section can occur when you try to promote a Windows Server 2003 stand-alone server or member server to a domain controller in the following Windows 2000 Active Directory environments:

• An additional domain controller in an existing domain in a Windows 2000 forest.
• The first domain controller in a new domain of an existing Windows 2000 forest.

Before you can promote an additional Windows Server 2003 domain controller into a Windows 2000 forest, an administrator must successfully run adprep /forestprep on the schema operations master and run adprep /domainprep on the infrastructure master in the Windows 2000 forest.

Before you can create a new Windows Server 2003 domain in an existing Windows 2000 forest, an administrator must successfully run adprep /forestprep on the schema operations master. Additionally, those changes must be fully replicated to the helper domain controller that is being used by the computer on which Active Directory is being installed.

Finally, the helper domain controller that is being used by the computer on which Active Directory is being installed must have replicated all incoming changes that adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep made.

Note A helper domain controller is an existing domain controller that is in a domain or in a forest. Computers on which Active Directory is being installed use the helper domain controller to source existing Active Directory information when the Active Directory Installation Wizard is used to create new domains in an existing forest or to add more domain controllers to an existing forest.

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Upgrading a Windows 2000 domain controller that resides in a Windows 2000 forest to Windows Server 2003

Before you can upgrade a Windows 2000 domain controller that resides in a Windows 2000 forest to Windows Server 2003, you must successfully run adprep /forestprep on the schema operations master, and then run adprep /domainprep on the infrastructure master in the target domain.

Additionally, any changes that adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep make must be fully replicated to the domain controller that is being upgraded.