Installing Windows 2000 Server; Installing Third-Party Utilities - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 Installation Manual

Operating System Requirements

Installing Windows 2000 Server

During the installation of Windows 2000, observe the following:
• If there is already an operating system present on the computer, choose to
perform a fresh install rather than an upgrade.
• Format the drives with NTFS rather than FAT, as NTFS allows access
controls to be set on files and directories.
• Specify that the computer will be a standalone server and will not be a
member of any existing domain or workgroup. This will reduce
dependencies on the network security services.
• Choose an administrator password of at least 9 characters. Use punctuation
or other non-alphabetic characters in the first 7 characters.
• Do not install Internet Information Server.
• Specify only TCP/IP as network protocol, and do not install any other
network services.

Installing Third-Party Utilities

You need an UNZIP utility to unpack the directory server software. There are
many commercially licensed, free and shareware tools available, such as PKZIP
or Winzip. Note that shareware unregistered versions of PKZIP 2.70 maintain a
TCP/IP connection to an Internet advertising service, so it may not be suitable
for installation on this system.
You may need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the documentation. If you do not
have it installed, you can download it from:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
To edit the server configuration file, you will need a text editor that is capable of
handling large text files (Notepad and Wordpad are not suitable). If you are
already familiar with Emacs text editor on UNIX, a port to Windows can be
downloaded from
many other shareware and commercial text editors available.
To display non-English characters using any Netscape browser, you can obtain
general internationalization advice and more specific information about the
Bitstream Cyberbit font from the following URL:
http://developer.netscape.com/software/jdk/i18n.html
To download the Bitstream Cyberbit font use the following FTP link:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows
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