Re: Sites and Services

From: ptwilliams (ptw200_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 23:49:30 +0100

You don't need a DC, although standard design dictates it best to have at
least one DC and GC at each site.

The changing of the passwords and browsing are probably separate.

The reason you can't see the machines is because there isn't a master
browser. The nethood is populated by the various browse masters throughout
the domain -basically you have one master browser per site, and several
secondaries. The PDCE, by default, is the domain master browser. You can
force a machine to become a browser by modifying some registry keys; by
default, machines have an election.

Search www.microsoft.com for info. on the browser service.

Also, check to make sure that you do have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled, the
NetBT Helper Service is running, and that the necessary ports are open on
the networking device between sites.

We'll come back to the password issue, once you've posted back.

Paul.
_________________________________________
"CL" <cl@mail> wrote in message
news:O7PCEmdQEHA.2976@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> There is not a DC on office in question - I have the DNS pointing another
> office - Do I need a DC or can we make this scenario work???
> "Chriss3" <noSpamHere@chrisse.se> wrote in message
> news:eub5cqcQEHA.3232@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hello CL,
> >
> > What you seeing is a network browsing problem. How ever is this site
> covered
> > by any Domain Controller?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Christoffer Andersson
> >
> > No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.chrisse.se - Active Directory Tips
> >
> > "CL" <cl@mail> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:eJNEevZQEHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a site in our Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain - the site
is
> > > listed in Sites and Services - and is also listed on our DHCP server.
> The
> > > users in this site can get to any network resource and can log on -
> > however
> > > they are not allowed to changed their password and we cannot browse
> their
> > > computers from the Network - we can however ping them.
> > >
> > > What else do I need to check to figure out why they are not showing up
> in
> > > the network listing of computers?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > CL
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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