Yes or No

[Steven Kirks]

As I've been taught and someone (I think) has already said:

NT Servers can be:  Primary DC, Backup DC, and stand alone

A Backup DC be promoted to a Primary DC.  Primary DC's are always Primary
DC's.  Your only solution is to reinstall.

Sorry if it's redundant.  Glad to finally contribute.

Steve Kirks
Senior Techinal Analyst--HelpDesk
Cox Health Systems
Springfield, MO USA



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave J. Andruczyk [mailto:dave at www.buffalostate.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 10:48 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject: RE: Yes or No


> 
> What I can't remember is whether you have to reinstall the OS. If you want
> to go from domain member to DC then you have to reinstall, but I've never
> done it in the other direction.

I beleive you can turn a PDC to stadalone but not the other way around..

Its always better to re-install NT anyway, as you donno what leftover junk
from being a PDC is laying around the registry waiting to bite you
later..

Dave J. Andruczyk
Instructional Support Associate
Department of Technology     
Buffalo State College





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