Re: domain controllers cannot find global catalog

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:46:19 +0100

That's a recommended practice. You only have to worry about this in a
massive forest with lots of poor WAN links... In smaller forests (and
especially single domain forests) make all DCs GCs... 

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"Dave Shaw [MVP]" <Sensei@NoUnsolicitedEmail.com> wrote in message
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If all the servers are in the same domain, there is absolutley no harm in
making all of them GCs.
-ds
"Dennis Basham" <DennisBasham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running three domain controllers on my network. yesterday I got the
>following message from win2k server- cannot find global catalog whenever
>anyone tries to log in. I  have looked at several documents that tell you
>how to do a nonauthoritative restore. My situation is this I am running
>win2k server sp4 with Veritas Backupexec using a fastor 8000. Can I do a
>restore using this setup on all three servers? What I would like to do is
>just somehow domote the three domain controllers and then make a domain
>controller of the same name on a brand  new server that I have just setup.
>Could that be done and if  so how. thanks.

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