Re: Active Directory setup
From: Miha Pihler (mihap-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 11/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:30:57 +0100
Hi Mike,
A lot of people ask me why does it have to be so hard. What I usually tell
them is this.
About 10 or so years ago when I had my first car I could fix just about
anything on it by myself. With my current car, I spend a few days reading
manual just to learn how to work with it -- and I don't have a clue how to
fix anything on it... (and I still keep discovering new things about my
latest car...). I can't even compare features of my old and new car (if I
had to I would put security features in first place).
If you find it hard to understand get a good book (not all of them are
written in a good - easy to understand way)...
For your clients to logon fast they will have to (!!) point to your local
Active Directory DNS server (probably also your active directory server) --
this is configured under TCP/IP properties. Also your Active Directory
server will have to point to itself for preferred DNS (again this is
configured under TCP/IP settings). After you make this change on AD server
restart the NetLogon service.
Now configure your DNS server on your active directory so that the clients
will be able to resolve computers on the internet. Open DNS MMC on your
server and right click the server's name in MMC. Click on properties and
select Forwarders. Here enter your ISP's DNS server IP address. This will
enable your clients to resolve hosts like www.cnn.com and others that are
not part of tulsaarts.com domain.
To help you with your e-mails, what do you use as e-mail server? Do you use
your own e-mail server? What is the error that clients get?
Mike
"Mike Johnson" <MikeJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F696AD4D-D82A-43BD-8EB8-9A356818D66B@microsoft.com...
>I am having a similiar problem. I used a MS checklist and created a DNS
> called tulsaarts.com thinking that I needed this prior to starting AD.
> When I
> started AD it created its own DNS entry called OFFICE.tulsaarts.com. The
> problem I am having is extremely long login times and now my outgoing
> email
> doesn't work. how do I fix this so the logins are brisk, the internet and
> email(ISP email, not internal) still work. I have read and reread the
> books I
> have with nothing sinking in. this is a single forest, single domain,
> single
> server in a small office 15 clients. I left all of the clients pointed to
> the
> ISP DNS thinking that email and internet would still work, internet works,
> email doesn't. I am looking for step by step instructions somewhere that I
> can just plug in my ISP settings and everything works. all of the clients
> need internet and email from ISP while they get file and print services
> from
> the server. WHY is this so hard??
>
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