samba-technical digest, Vol 1 #1556 - 1 msg

[David Schwarz]

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>   1. Re: Heuristics for finding a Win2K domain controller ... (Steve Langasek)
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>On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:55:17AM +0200, Norbert P?schel wrote:
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>>Steve Langasek schrieb:
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>>There is no way you can avoid DDNS if you want to use AD. None.
>>W2K-Clients use
>>DNS to find their servers. (You could make static DNS entries, but this
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>>very admin-friendly...)
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>When it comes to Windows admins, *I'm* not very admin-friendly, either.
>I was specifically asking whether this could be done with static DNS
>entries; I'm glad to hear the answer is yes.
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Dont even try it, we initally went that way, and pulled the config file 
from the correct location on the server
(\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ I think)

But everytime you change server roles or add servers to the Domain, this 
file needs to be regenerated.

If you have only one server you will get away with it, but we have 6, 
and while we where setting up
the domain, we had major problems, as some things like sites also use 
DNS to find the correct server,
and as we moved subnets from one site to the next we did not relise the 
underlying DNS was changing every
time you modfied it. (we do now, and we could probably go back)

The bottom line, if you are going to use static entries, setup 
everything in win2k, and when ever
you make any changes to the Domain other than adding/deleting users, 
regenerate the file.
(In large sites this means you may have to do it everyday)

In the end we gave up and created a subdomain and let win2k run it.

Dave...

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