Well There is sort of a PDC in AD.. It's called a single operations master and is the onbly server that can do certain changes. There are five such operations.
See MS KnowladgeBase article Q197132 /Mats, Currently studying for AD MCP >From: Norbert Püschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Heuristics for finding a Win2K domain controller ... >Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:03:23 +0200 > > > >Richard Sharpe schrieb: > > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Norbert Püschel wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > WINS is only used for backward compatibility in Win2K. The DCs are >found > > > via their > > > > My original problem was that I did not have WINS properly configured ... > > > > > DNS entries; they have entries of type SRV in _msdcs.your.domain, >where > > > your.domain is > > > your DNS domain _and_ your W2K-domain. > > > > > > Your DNS must support dynamic DNS for this to work. W2Ks DNS-server >does > > > this, as does BIND 8/9. > > > > Seems like I can use dig to retrieve the entries gc._msdcs.<domain> and > > get back the list of addresses that the PDC? uses? > >Uh, I haven't reverse-engineered all those messy SRV-entries yet. The >"gc"-entry is >probably made by the global catalog server. BTW: There is no "PDC" in an >AD-domain... >there is only a PDC-emulator. > >Bye, > Norbert > _________________________________________________________________ Hämta MSN Explorer kostnadsfritt på http://explorer.msn.se/intl.asp