RE: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC

[Willem Kasdorp]

Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC

All right, seriously then. If you really insist on hacking it instead of fixing nameresolution you can use nltest to reset the secure channel to the DC you want. That sound better?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Westmoreland Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC   That’s Brilliant! Then we could just stop resolving DNS names except for DCs.  We could break file & print, internet & everything else, but the client would be authenticated right where we want them.... From: Willem Kasdorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:18:17 +0200 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC That’s easy. On W2000 and XP, remove the DNS servers from the IP settings, and put the relevant DC entries in the HOSTS file. For W9x, set #DOM and 1b records in LMHOSTS. That way you insure the can only find the DC’s you want them to.   --    Regards, Willem   P.S.   > If we could just skip over that whole bit it would be great. That was pretty hard, but I did it!     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Westmoreland Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC Ok Guys, I am about to ask a question that may stir up a great deal of conversation about “Good Practice” and “Avoiding Hard Coded Entries”, If we could just skip over that whole bit it would be great.  That being said, I need to control the logonserver of individual machines running operating systems ranging from win98, to NT4.0, win2k, and winXP.  This is a mixed mode active directory domain in a typical branch office deployment single domain, single forest.  Again this needs to be on individual machines so please don’t respond with a  DNS answer, I’m looking for a reg hack or a utility like setprfdc.exe that will work in an ActiveDirectory Domain on all of the previously mentioned operating systems. Thanks, Brent