Plan of Direction: ================== The plan is to consolidate all DNS/WINS/DHCP services on 2 Windows 2003 standaalone members. Not sure if I expose more security holes if I made these 2 Windows 2003 servers members of NT4 domain member server, but the plan is once we have the Windows 2003 Active Directory in placed, we will upgrade these 2 Windows 2003 servers our future Windows 2003 Domain controllers.
Questions: ========== 1/ Am I exposing security risk to consolidate all DNS/WINS/DHCP services this way? I dont think Microsoft thinks this is risky for Windows 2003, but what do you agree Microsoft view? 2/ Even if no risk, would you still setup this way? How easy for an administrator to approach their disaster recovery? EG, what if the Active Directory or Global Catalog fails to function, would my DHCP still function to manage my reserved devices like printers and servers? 3/ Can Microsoft DHCP server manage non-domain device like printers? 4/ Unless the network fails, the fact that I have 2 DHCP servers, DHCP service should continue to function even if one of them fails. Please confirm. thank you. Regards, BY It depends on how you define network connectivity. If for some reason the DHCP service stopped processing requests, you would notice that machines without reservations would not be able to get new addresses, but your machines with reserved addresses should still have TCP/IP connectivity. What are your symptoms? ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
