HOW TO SETUP WIN 2000 AS A Primary Domain Controller

[Guest_imported]

Hi!
Any advice on how to setup our Win2000 Server as PDC.Currently we have an NT4 Server as PDC for production and we have another Win2000 server which we want to be as PDC also for application development. Any suggestion pls. on how to make this possible. Thanks.

lemmor_yu@CVIS.NET.PH

 

[BertV]

In 2000 there is no longer a PDC or BDC, Just Domain Controlers. You can create a Domain Controller in w2k by going to you configure my computer and installing Active Directory Services or ADS. The wizards are pretty good and will walk you through the process

Bert

 

[peterve]

You can emulate a NT4 PDC on a Win2K server by settings it's role to PDC emulator. (in a mixed mode domain !)

Go to the users & computers snap-in, select your domain, right click and choose 'Operations Masters'


Remember : switching from mixed mode to native mode only affects the domain controllers (not the clients, they should always be able to log on using NTLM & Kerberos)


Good luck Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

 

[bobleona]

Before upgrading any NT domain you should remove a BDC from the network. That way if the upgrade fails you will have something with the information of your domain to revert back too.
As for you application server. Just make it a member server of your domain. That was it won't do any authentication. Then share the applications.

Does this help?