[SOLVED] how to setup a home network

[sk3k2k]

i want to replicate a work environment so i can practice at home. therefore i want to buy a domain and install windows server on a computer and add just 2 nodes to it and play aroudn with permissions and dhcp and dns etc.... i can't find this info on the internet.

anyone link me to it?

also, the approximate cost?

 

[USAFRet]

If you have a reasonably beefy PC and plenty of RAM (32GB or more), the easiest/cheapest way to do this is VirtualMachines.

WindowsServer and a couple of client systems, all virtualized inside your physical hardware, talking to each other.

This is my system, running 4x VMs

Linux
Win 10
Win 10
WindowsServer 2012
Host of Win 10 Pro.

 

[sk3k2k]

i want to replicate a work environment so i can practice at home. therefore i want to buy a domain and install windows server on a computer and add just 2 nodes to it and play aroudn with permissions and dhcp and dns etc.... i can't find this info on the internet.

anyone link me to it?

also, the approximate cost?

my pc is from 2008. so do you have a domain and you setup dns, dhcp, file server, gpo's, user objects etc....?

 

[USAFRet]

my pc is from 2008. so do you have a domain and you setup dns, dhcp, file server, gpo's, user objects etc....?

I could if I wanted, and have in the past.
That WindowsServer is a full installation. Does everything you could do on actual hardware.

I used to do a LOT of development that way.
Server and a couple of clients.