By site and sitelink metric, there is no other way it could do it until MS has the DCs smartest enough to talk to routers and get routing info out of them to autodiscover topology. And even still... The complexity would be rather high going that route.
joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] dcpromo replication can anyone confirm the mechanism by which dcpromo being run discovers the source of domain information on the initial dc promotion. i know we doing this unattended you can hardcode a source into the script file but how does it find a source when left to its own devices ?? q223757 tells us "the closest domain controller from the domain being replicated will be selected. " - is this by site defintion ? GT 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/
