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Two forests on the same LAN
Posted on 2010-09-01
Hi, we have a small office with one LAN that includes a single forest with a single domain.
We are hosting a conference next week, and we are setting up demo machines for our product. We want to create a unique logon for each person that registers for the conference.
I was thinking about just using DCPromo and creating a new forest, and then just giving the machines in this new forest static IPs. I can then just use DCPromo to remove the forest when the conference is over.
I'm a little paranoid about this and worried that this could affect our current active directory forest.
Is there anything to be worried about? Any precautions I should take?
We are hosting a conference next week, and we are setting up demo machines for our product. We want to create a unique logon for each person that registers for the conference.
I was thinking about just using DCPromo and creating a new forest, and then just giving the machines in this new forest static IPs. I can then just use DCPromo to remove the forest when the conference is over.
I'm a little paranoid about this and worried that this could affect our current active directory forest.
Is there anything to be worried about? Any precautions I should take?
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I wouldn't really have two forests on the same LAN in a production environment, although it should work...
It would be easier to use VLANS to separate your LANS, install the new forest in the new LAN segment, then create a forest trust if resources need to be shared between both.
It would be easier to use VLANS to separate your LANS, install the new forest in the new LAN segment, then create a forest trust if resources need to be shared between both.
You should be good to go but just make sure you are running on a different subnet and you name the domain something totally different so there will not be any mistakes or DNS issues.
Create new forest don't connect to your existing forest
Create new forest don't connect to your existing forest
hi
first of all there is no problem to run 2 difrent domains in same lan.
But you should consider the method of plannung the new domain.
I needd more info abuot your current server (is he dhcp\static, terminal server ect ? ...)
first of all there is no problem to run 2 difrent domains in same lan.
But you should consider the method of plannung the new domain.
I needd more info abuot your current server (is he dhcp\static, terminal server ect ? ...)
@amieldar, I was thinking of doing a new forest instead of a new domain, just to make sure that the layers are even more seperate from each other.
We have two domain controllers here running AD and DNS, and then our sonicwall firewall runs the DHCP. DHCP shouldn't matter, because I plan on just giving the 2-3 computers on this seperate forest their own static IP address.
We have two domain controllers here running AD and DNS, and then our sonicwall firewall runs the DHCP. DHCP shouldn't matter, because I plan on just giving the 2-3 computers on this seperate forest their own static IP address.
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