# N00b trying to set up on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 30, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n00b-trying-to-set-up-on-windows/197514 "2019-08-30T12:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n00b-trying-to-set-up-on-windows/197514/4 "2019-08-30T16:22:38Z")
Hi @jhmariscal No actually we are not saying that should work... 🙂 See [Here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html#network.host) and [Here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/bootstrap-checks.html#dev-vs-prod-mode) These are important concepts please take a look and read You are most likely getting this error ``` [2019-08-30T09:16:07,451][INFO][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [ceres] bound or publishing to a non-loopback address, enforcing bootstrap checks ERROR: [1] bootstrap checks failed [1]: the default discovery settings are unsuitable for production use; at least one of [discovery.seed_hosts, discovery.seed_providers, cluster.initial_master_nodes] must be configured [2019-08-30T09:16:07,460][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [ceres] stopping ... ``` You can add `discovery.type: single-node` which you can read about [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/bootstrap-checks.html#single-node-discovery) and that should let you start the node. These are important checks as this is to make sure people are making conscious decisions about making Elasticsearch network addressable especially if they have not implemented any security... things to think about. When you attach to 0.0.0.0 anyone that knows the endpoint can now access that instance and the data within it... until you secure it... in addition if this were part of a cluster it would need to know how to discover other nodes etc. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n00b-trying-to-set-up-on-windows/197514)._