HOW TO GET CLIENTS TO AUTHENTICATE WITH A SPECIFIC SERVER

[brendaluv]

I have client machines that are required to authenticate with a particular domain controller...is there a way to achieve this? Maybe hardcoding the info in the client's registry?

thank you for your time

 

[frkb]

Can I ask why you want them to authenticate with a specific DC? Are they authenticating with a DC across a slow link instead?

 

[brendaluv]

we recently merged with another department, the latter is ipx/novell based, ours is TCPIP/Microsoft...MS users have moved to a new building which need to authenticate with with a MS DC, we have created another DC which is now located in the other building...so logically our old users should authenticate with the newly installed DC by default, right? For performance reasons, I want to avoid those clients authenticating over the Fiber Optic link.

let me know if you have more questions

 

[jfwebber]

So now you have two physical sites? Go into Active Directory Site and Service and create a site for the new building. Put the new DC into that site. Make the new DC a global catalog and DNS server. Point your clients in the new building DNS to your new DC and that should take care of your issue.

Jim

Jim Webber
Network Administrator MCSE CNA