Re: [WinMac] WinNT PDC vs BDC

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:26:03 -0400

        It is actually quite easy to switch PDC's: Just go into Server Manager,
select the desired server, and then under the "Computer" menubar item
select "Promote to Primary Domain Controller.

        WARNING: Do this during off-hours, and be sure to synchronize domain
controllers. Otherwise, 95 and NT clients can have all sorts of login
problems with "Domain Controller not found" error messages.

        Also, do NOT confuse an NT Domain with a *nix domain (like we all use with
the Internet). In fact, you can have a separate NT domain riding on the
same wires as a *nix domain! (I did this at a college when I wanted to
provide security amongst a bunch of students so they could trade files in
privacy!)

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 09:54 AM 10/22/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Our department has recently set up an NT server. Before this setup, one of
>the techies in our department, has had as one of his personal use machines,
>an NT Server box.
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>Our department NT server is the most important machine of both. His, is
>really an unnofficial machine because he pretty much put it together
>himself and was payed for by himself, I guess he felt like bringing in his
>own machine in addition to the one given to him by the department.
>
>To make a long story short, his machine is currently the Primary Domain
>Controller, and when we set up our NT box it was setup as the Backup Domain
>Controller. I do not yet understand very well what consequences this may
>have in the near future for our clients, but I suspect we would want to
>have the official NT Server as the PDC for the department.
>
>By the way, we currently have been running NetWare 3.11 and have about 45
>clients, 3 of which are PCs, and the rest are Macs.
>
>I will gradually migrate all of these accounts to the NT server fairly soon
>and I am not so sure that these accounts will need to be migrated to a PDC
>machine only (to avoid unforeseen problems?).
>
>Can you please shed some light on this issue?
>
>Thank you very much.
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