Heuristics for finding a Win2K domain controller ...

Mats olsson mace2442 at hotmail.com
Mon May 6 23:41:02 GMT 2002


Well There is sort of a PDC in AD..

It's called a single operations master and is the onbly server that can do 
certain changes. There are five such operations.

See MS KnowladgeBase article Q197132

/Mats, Currently studying for AD MCP


>From: Norbert Püschel <Pueschel.Norbert at Walzbarren-VAW.ne.uunet.de>
>To: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at ns.aus.com>
>CC: samba-technical at samba.org
>Subject: Re: Heuristics for finding a Win2K domain controller ...
>Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:03:23 +0200
>
>
>
>Richard Sharpe schrieb:
> >
> > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Norbert Püschel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > WINS is only used for backward compatibility in Win2K. The DCs are 
>found
> > > via their
> >
> > My original problem was that I did not have WINS properly configured ...
> >
> > > DNS entries; they have entries of type SRV in _msdcs.your.domain, 
>where
> > > your.domain is
> > > your DNS domain _and_ your W2K-domain.
> > >
> > > Your DNS must support dynamic DNS for this to work. W2Ks DNS-server 
>does
> > > this, as does BIND 8/9.
> >
> > Seems like I can use dig to retrieve the entries gc._msdcs.<domain> and
> > get back the list of addresses that the PDC? uses?
>
>Uh, I haven't reverse-engineered all those messy SRV-entries yet. The
>"gc"-entry is
>probably made by the global catalog server. BTW: There is no "PDC" in an
>AD-domain...
>there is only a PDC-emulator.
>
>Bye,
>   Norbert
>


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