Hi.
I’m having a problem with DHCP, AD, & DNS. I have a mix environment of 2000 & 2003 server and 2000 and XP workstation. I’m in the process of upgrading my old servers to 2003. I have 25 local servers and 2 remote servers. I have over 30 remote sites, each one having a different subnet. I’m currently running DNS on two 2003 servers & one 2000 server. The primary DNS is running on 2003 and the secondary is running on 2000. I also have AD running on both 2003 servers. I want to replicate AD & DNS on both 2003 servers. I also want to make sure if one of the 2003 servers goes down the other one will take over AD & DNS. Once this is working, I want to have DHCP, AD, & DNS on my remote servers. All my workstations have DHCP enable however DNS is manually configured. On most of my servers I have two NIC configured with one configured on the 192.168.249.x subnet and the other configured with 100.100.100.x subnet. I want to get rid of the 100.100.100.x subnet, however all workstations are pointing to both DNS servers on the 100.100.100.x subnet.
Let the record show that I didn’t start this fire, I inherit it. The new servers I have configured are on the newest subnet of 192.168.253.x with only one NIC configured. You can image most of the errors and problems I have on my servers. (Duplicate name, The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory, The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication, The DHCP service failed to see a directory server for authorization.)
What is the best way to clean up this mess? Thank you.
I’m having a problem with DHCP, AD, & DNS. I have a mix environment of 2000 & 2003 server and 2000 and XP workstation. I’m in the process of upgrading my old servers to 2003. I have 25 local servers and 2 remote servers. I have over 30 remote sites, each one having a different subnet. I’m currently running DNS on two 2003 servers & one 2000 server. The primary DNS is running on 2003 and the secondary is running on 2000. I also have AD running on both 2003 servers. I want to replicate AD & DNS on both 2003 servers. I also want to make sure if one of the 2003 servers goes down the other one will take over AD & DNS. Once this is working, I want to have DHCP, AD, & DNS on my remote servers. All my workstations have DHCP enable however DNS is manually configured. On most of my servers I have two NIC configured with one configured on the 192.168.249.x subnet and the other configured with 100.100.100.x subnet. I want to get rid of the 100.100.100.x subnet, however all workstations are pointing to both DNS servers on the 100.100.100.x subnet.
Let the record show that I didn’t start this fire, I inherit it. The new servers I have configured are on the newest subnet of 192.168.253.x with only one NIC configured. You can image most of the errors and problems I have on my servers. (Duplicate name, The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory, The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication, The DHCP service failed to see a directory server for authorization.)
What is the best way to clean up this mess? Thank you.