Re: Domain controllers

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Hello Smokey,

Is the new dc DNS server and are your clients configured to use it as secondary dns if the primary is down on the NIC configuration?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
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I think we are at more of a problem then just that... even if we turn
off the DCOld the clients still try to authenticate against it... not
sure why then they come back with cant talk to domain controller on
their system instead of even trying to go to DCNew... any ideas?

"Meinolf Weber (Myweb)" <meiweb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Smokey,

If your servers are in the same site, the client just uses the first
one it can reach for authentication. You can not point the client to
a special dc.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
We just added a second dedicated domain controller to our server
mix... we had two in the past but one of them died... none of them
in the past where dedicated, but the new box is just a domain
controller... We'd like this to be the one that most of the people
hit... but even 3 weeks after putting it in, everyone seems to still
authenticated on the old DC which runs more then just DC... Is there
any way to give preference to the new dedicated DC? I can't find a
single system that is authenticated against the new DC right now...
Our new DC... call it DCNew and old call it DCOld have the following
settings in the directory...

Both DC's are in the same domain and physically on the same switch
also

DCNew - Global Catalog, Replicated from DCOld, Replicates to DCOld,
Operations master for RID, Operations Master for PDC, Operations
Master for Infrastructure

DCOld - Previous RID/PDC/Operations master... Global Catalog

any suggestions? or ideas why everyone authenticates always against
DCOld? thanks!



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