DC's running File and Print services. good or not

[tood]

I have to setup a DC in my regional office to connect to our new win2k evironment. All the doco I read points in the direction that DC's should be dedicated and F&P servers should be members. I guess this is the ideal environment. I'm considering running F&P on a DC. Can anyone tell me the impact of this? thanks.

 

[peterve]

It depends on the number of clients you want to host, and additionally on the amount of printers and shares you want to host on the server
How big is the network you are talking about ? Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

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[tood]

My company has 1300 users globally, but I have only 50 users in my office with 6 printers (4 that do hardly any work) and about 25Gb of data to share. My network connects back to the main office across the Pacific via a 512k frame relay connnection. I believe my box is well over spec'ed being a Dell 2500 poweredge with a 900Mhz processor/1g of RAM and 54 G hard drive space after RAID 5 takes its cut. I'm also thinking of running Terminal Services on it as well.

 

[jrdebug]

phew! that's quite a load! well, definitely, it will work. but it is never a good design to run all of those services on one machine. ever heard of the term fault-tolerance?

if the budget allows it, always go on the safe side and implement fault-tolerant designs. just an advice. besides, it's your neck on the line...


Jeffrey Rebong
Computer Engineer/Network Administrator
jrdebug@yahoo.com