Finding the root. I believe it was Dean who posted this a little while back. "... another thought, to determine your forest root in order to validate the dn you're supplying, the following single-line command line syntax will help -
portqry -n <domain name> -e 389 | find "root" Run that on both domains and compare. If DHCP is shared, then the network is likely as well. My approach would be to start from the bottom of the stack, at the physical level and figure it out from there taking care to deal with each level at a time. For starters, you'll have to figure out how to modify the networks to separate them. That leads to the DHCP servers, DNS, Active Directory etc. However, let's find out about the forest topology first. If they're the same, then your process might vary slightly from the above. Al ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Danny Sent: Wed 8/31/2005 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Companies splitting - where to start with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. On 8/30/05, Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is it you need to accomplish then? If they're already separate, > what's to separate other than name resolution and DHCP/network services? >From an Active Directory point of view, the AD trust will need to be broken, but I would like to know what it might break - I am new to this specific environment, so I don't know what is currently relying on the trust. DHCP is shared, many AD sites are as well. Shared WAN and firewall, as well as many frame relay connections to remote offices. > Can you get more clarifiction of the topology? Confirm it's two separate > forests and not two separate domains in the same forest (dijointed > namespace)? External trust, non-transitive. How can I confirm these are two seperate forests - besides looking in ADD&T? Thanks, ...D List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
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