Removing a BDC 2

[NTFOOL]

Hi All
I am curious if anybody can point me to an article that will show me how to setup remote authentication for a Windows NT 4 network.
I have a bdc on a remote subnet that I want to remove for a brief period of time, during that time I would like to redirect the 10 users from that branch to authenticate to another domian controller on a different subnet.

Hopefull this makes sense, thanks in advance to any help.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

As long as the cleints can travers the remote connection and find a WINS server and a domain controller you could just temporarily shutdown the BDC. the clients will find another BDC or PDC to authenticate with. In the NT 4 environment it is first come first serve, any domain controller that gets a request for authentication can reply to that request.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Added - You dont need to redirect... the request for authentication is a broadcast.

 

[AndrewTait]

Your remote site users will already know where the PDC is, as you can only change passwords on the PDC, not the BDC. Therefore, there is no issue with just shutting down the BDC. However, it would not be advisable to do this for too long, as it would mean increased WAN traffic, for authentication and in replication when you bring the BDC back on line.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

 

[NTFOOL]

Thanks for the quick replies, seems they are logging in without missing a beat.