Lori, That’s a hard one with so little information. The NT4 world does not understand the use of DNS for resource discover. It still uses wins (a booting nt4 box finds a pdc/bdc via wins or broadcast, asks for a list of bdcs from it to set up a secure channel for login etc) to find things. Having a good wins setup is still essential. It also depends on your topography, eg do you have a number of sites with bdcs on each, as to how you want to move. You will have a peering wins service with a wan-based environment. (make sure that it is correct, especially the list of domain controllers listed against the domain) With Microsoft DNS in the picture, it can be configured to resolve via wins.
Unless you can whip around and upgrade everything to win2k, consider the servers (exchange or FS) first. If they cannot authenticate someone then that breaks many things. You could install dsclient on them or migrate them to win2k server. (Personally at an organisational level, I believe that the OS should stay for the life of the desktop machine. If you service say 600 desktops, they all have a natural life and the roll on process will gradually replace/upgrade their OSes. So treat servers and clients diferently. Make sure wins is well services and your DNS should be very robust. Michael Homsey Telecommunications and Industrial Physics CSIRO, Australia -----Original Message----- From: Lori Demkovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] dsclient and NT 4.0 workstations/servers Group, What are the benefits to deploying dsclient to 4.0 workstations and servers? Thanks in advance, LCD .+-wȆi0g-������+Yb孲mPi䨊0൮-������+bᵲڪf.+-j! 0j!飊or敩yثI嚊V+v* 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/
