You would want connection to the FSMO servers from your DCs. RID...hands out the pool of update IDs, so if your local DC could not communicate with it then, no more updates for him. PDC Emu...Password change, lockouts are all sent to him straight away, so they need to talk.
Etc.... I hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Sobey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] FSMO Questions Hi guys, In my forthcoming domain, I will have a series of sites in a non-fully-routed toplogy, ie, if site links a-b and b-c are defined, a may not be able to see c directly. I am happy that I can turn off implicit site-link bridging to accomodate for this in normal replication. However, does anyone know whether the FSMO's have to be directly reachable by IP from all DC's? Ideally, I would have thought that their FSMO duties could be carried out via the normal replication topology, but I'd be grateful for confirmation from this list... :) Cheers, P. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
