Re: Active Directory setup

From: m.marien (mm)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:35:40 -0600

"Miha Pihler" <mihap-news@atlantis.si> wrote in message
news:etUbROCzEHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi Mike,
>
> A lot of people ask me why does it have to be so hard. What I usually tell
> them is this.
>
[snip]
>
> 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.
>

It's not really necessary to use a forwarder. As long as the system with the
DNS server is connected to the Internet, it will resolve domain names for
it's clients in addition to the local name resolution.

> 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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