Re: Anyone else running their cluster node as domain controller?

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From: Loay Shbeilat [MS] (loays_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:35:20 -0700

Actually running 2 windows 2003 domain controllers as clustered nodes.
Have a DHCP resource and a file share resource. However no printer resource.

Has been running well for couple of years. 

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"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm running a 2003 Server cluster on an HP DL380 G3 clustered unit in
> active/active node.  I'm running them as domain controllers with AD 
> services,
> DNS, DHCP and print and file services.
>
> We're having some problems with some clustered printers periodically(every
> other week) not printing,  followed by cluster service hanging. Absolutely 
> no
> trace of an initiating event in any log. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a
> problem with our configuration and particularly the domain controller/NIC
> issue. I know it's not a best practice but I'll be damned if I buy  more
> licenses and servers just to get this thing stable.  Any RPC issues that
> might explain this?
>
> Anyone having problems with a configuration like this?
>
>

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