You don't really need it, but if it is already installed, you
might as well leave it alone. It doesn't hurt anything, and it
has some advantages as you grow. Removing may be involved. I
remember reading that it is not as straight forward as you might
think.
If you really want to be rid of it, I would reinstall win2k
completetly. But like i said, I have it installed. It causes me
no greif that I know of. And it does have certain advantages.
Though it has been a couple of very long weeks so I can't even
remember where my servers are located at this point let alone
what the advantages are of active directory.
cheers
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Patrick Mast, WinFakt!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:29:55 +0200
>Hey Jeff, Thanks!!
>
>Can I delete Active Directory from my machine?
>Do I _need_ it?
>Does it make things easyer for me?
>
>Patrick
>
>> A couple things. First, if you do not refresh your list of
hosts
>> changes you make may not appear in the DNS manager in Win2k.
This
>> refreshing business has screwed me up several times.
>> If you cannot get it to work try starting over. Delete the
entire
>> zone.
>> The "add zone". Click on your active directory if you like to
>> integrate it.
>> Type in domain.com.
>> The zone will appear at the bottom of your list (not in alpha
>> order)
>> Highlight the zone name and right click the mouse to open your
>> option list. Select add new host.
>> enter "mail", and the appropriate ip address. Check the box to
>> have it update your ptr record and click "add host"
>> do this again if you need a "www" host record, using the ip
>> address for your website
>> do this again with "" (nothing), if you want http://domain.com
to
>> point to your web address, and the same ip as for www, above"
>> Highlight the zone again and right click for your option list.
>> This time select add a "Mail Exchanger".
>> Leave the first blank empty and type "mail.domain.com" in the
>> second blank. You can leave the "10" there or use some other
>> priority as you like.
>> This should work.
>> Don't mess with the registry or anything or you will end up
>> hiring a consultant or reinstalling win 2k :)
>> I am no expert, but len helped me get started with some basic
>> answers and i have a couple mos experience with win 2k.
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