thats what i thought but we had one funny dcpromo - the dcpromo.log told us it had sourced the domain info from a site that networking / site / site link wise is miles (or should i now say km's !!) away from it
hence the question this then begs the behaviour wr.t retry if the "closest" one it gets from the directory is not available - does it do the AD pings that the logon server discovery process does ?? GT ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] dcpromo replication > 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/ > 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/
