Adding DC and forcing authentication
We want to add a DC and force a group of machines in a site to authenticate to this DC. We have all XP machines authenticating to 2003 server DC's. I know there is no way to do it 100% but can I build a site and add those machines(IP's) to that site. Then add the DC I just built to the "servers" section in Sites and Services? This will atleast force most of the authentication to this DC? We want to reduce the WAN traffic ,since we have a network that spans across our state.
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Yes its Active Directory integrated DNS.
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Also once this site is created its not guaranteed it will authenticate to this DC 100% correct? If there is say network latency or lag time then it will authenticate to my other DC's? No way around this?
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One more question ,theres no way to keep the other sites from authenticating to this specific DC? The site I want to create has a group of machines that are in the same building as another site. They will authenticate to this DC also ...right? Since it is the closest on in proximity? Thanks mkline71
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Can I associate a DC to two sites or more? This way I can associate a DC to each site so that they dont authenticate to each others DC's? I hope that makes sense
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We have over 10 sites and 3 DC's. On our sites and services we only have 3 of them assigned to DC's. The others I guess are authenticated to the closest proximity DC's? Can I assign which site authenticates to which DC by just adding the server to the site?
To answer the question about adding 2 DC's is because our management wants to have a group of machines(that are actually owned by a different company) authenticate to there own DC. Eventhough they are in the same building.
To answer the question about adding 2 DC's is because our management wants to have a group of machines(that are actually owned by a different company) authenticate to there own DC. Eventhough they are in the same building.
You associate the subnet of your remote site to the site and the machines in that site/subnet should authenticate to the DC in that site.
See my response about halfway down the thread below for more detailed steps
http://www.experts-exchang
Also make that DC a global catalog server. If anyone gives you grief about that see the first bullet in this blog
http://adisfun.blogspot.co
How is your DNS setup right now? Are you using Active Directory integrated DNS?
Thanks
Mike