# Building simple network from scratch - Help

**URL:** <https://openziti.discourse.group/t/building-simple-network-from-scratch-help/2098>\
**Category:** Building/Development\
**Created:** [February 18, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/building-simple-network-from-scratch-help/2098 "2024-02-18T18:24:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/building-simple-network-from-scratch-help/2098/2 "2024-02-18T18:33:01Z")

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Hello @Pentagon2442, welcome to the community and to OpenZiti!

That is a **very** interesting issue you have there! I would not expect a 400 to come back from the enrollment.

Can you detail the exact steps you've followed so that I can try to reproduce what you're seeing? I have very recently done exactly this setup, but used docker instead of CentOS 7 VMs. Maybe that thread would help you? [Accessing remotely (Docker) - #6 by TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/accessing-remotely-docker/2061/6)

> [@Pentagon2442](#):
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> Certainly one of my biggest problem is it the creation of the Certificates, at least by this time. Now I have created them with OpenSSL, maybe should I have used they built in Ziti commands

It's certainly easier if you let the quicsktart generate the PKI for you. It's a **very** delicate thing and exceptionally easy to get wrong. We recently added this to try to explain what a quickstart does and how the PKI is structured etc [Quickstart Walkthrough | OpenZiti](https://openziti.io/docs/learn/quickstarts/network/help/quickstart-walkthrough). Maybe that will help too.

I'll be happy to help you get your setup rocking. Take a look at those links first, show me the exact sets of commands you've run and I'm sure we'll get you rocking in no time.

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