Re: Advice Seeking: Active Directory / IIS

From: Mike Cox (mcox_at_nwon.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:13:48 -0500

Hi.

Thanks for the input, it is much appreciated. I thought Multi-Homed meant
that the computer had more than one NIC card and that Multiple IP addresses
on a single card is called multiple identities.

I can understand how logon issues could arise from multiple NIC cards but
with only one NIC (multiple IPs), would logon issues still arise?

Mike

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11d2701c41054$5ff6bec0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I don't recommend installing AD on a multi-homed (many
> IP) box. It can cause issues with anything trying to use
> the AD to logons. If you can load the box with more RAM,
> you are better off investing in some form of
> virtualization technology (vmWare Workstation, Microsoft
> VirtualPC, etc.) This would allow you to wrap the AD
> server in it's own mini-server and dedicate an IP address
> to it. You can get away with the lower-end software if
> you don't mind some of the hassles, or purchase the better
> server-oriented (vmWare GSX Server, etc.) for the added
> management benefits.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I just sold my business that had an Active Directory
> domain. I am now
> >keeping just one machine to be my Web/Mail/SQL server. I
> am trying to
> >decide wheter or not to install Active Directory on this
> one machine.
> >
> >In the past it was not recommended to have a multible IP
> addresses assigned
> >to an Active Directory DC so I made my IIS machine a
> member server on the AD
> >domain. But my new server is Windows 2003. Perhaps it
> is better suited to
> >this type of scenerio. Here is what I want to do:
> >
> >Single Windows 2003 Server with about 10 IP addresses
> assigned to the NIC
> >card for IIS
> >IIS with Share Point Services
> >SQL Server 2000
> >Mail Server software (I do not use Exchange Server)
> >
> >Should I use Active Directory or am I asking this
> computer to do too much
> >(please assume that my hardware is adequate)? I know MS
> sells Small Biz
> >Server 2003 that has all this and more destined to be
> installed on a single
> >machine. I am comfortable using Active Directory, and I
> do plan to add
> >more servers in the future.
> >
> >Any thought out there?
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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