It's not speed or resources that scare most of us when it comes to sharing DC space with other apps, it's security. With SBS Microsoft has (at least in theory) covered most of those security bases for the admin. The last time I allowed another admin to install FTP on a server he inadvertently put no security on it whatsoever and the company I was with at the time ended up serving up 200 GB of German p0rn. He had lots of fun explaining why our new server had crashed due to lack of diskspace.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Egan (Temp) Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 6:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Major screwup on AD for my company - Can't install AD on remote server now Well, the servers running the DC, mail, PDC, etc. are quad-processor SuperMicros, so they aren't even sweatin' hard. I'm watching them, they're golden. (Thanks, Susan - we think alike.) (Ahem... don't look now, but we already have 8 IBM e-Business servers (quad xeon) and are getting more. Don' neeeeeeed no steeeeeeenkin' SBS's! ;P ) (Let me just unequivocally state right here that SAP is a 10,000lb gorilla...) Steve Egan Purcell Systems System/Network Administrator desk 509 755-0341 x110 cell 509 475-7682 fax 509 755-0345 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Major screwup on AD for my company - Can't install AD on remote server now Yeah next they'll be SBS servers being installed there. (For some of us having our DCs do other things doesn't freak us out as much as it does you big serverland guys) Matt Hargraves wrote: > I know you probably haven't been there very long, but what in the heck > are they thinking, making DCs mail servers and FTP servers. Might as > well load them up with web services next. > > BTW, you probably shouldn't be posting your infrastructure in a > message list. > > > > On 10/6/06, *Steve Egan (Temp)* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Al, will do. I tucked FTPSERVER under a desk and forgot about > it. Experience has taught me the hard way not to be in a rush to > tear down machines and cannibalize the parts until you are SURE > it's okay to loot the corpse. Nevermind the smell... > > > > AD and DNS is working as well as can be expected with a > thumb-fingered choom hacking away at it! FTPSERVER **was** a DC, > I think, but I'll fire up the box (OFF of the wire!) and start > looking at it. > > > > Here's what I see for the domain: > > > > How the *&^($(*^ is Sweden in there?? It's NOT an AD server, it > refuses to become one... This entry is from an OLD Sweden server > entry - notice how the guy before me spedded Swe(den). > > > > "IF it ain't broke, don't break it!". Maybe I should just quit > screwing with it - for now... > > > > I'll keep plugging away at it, I guess. > > > > Steve Egan > > Purcell Systems > > System/Network Administrator > > desk 509 755-0341 x110 > > cell 509 475-7682 > > fax 509 755-0345 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] *On Behalf Of *Al Mulnick > *Sent:* Friday, October 06, 2006 1:30 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] Major screwup on AD for my company - > Can't install AD on remote server now <SNIP> List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
