Parent/Child Domain logon problems

[Davetoo]

Hello all,

I'm missing something simple probably with this problem. We have a parent domain setup (company.com) with four child domains (city1.company.com - city4.company.com). I have two DC's in my parent domain. Server1 is my DNS server, DHCP server, as well as my GC. Again, this server is a DC in company.com. All of our sites are connected via frame-relay and have their own DC's at each site.

The problem is when my network connection is lost here at the parent site (company.com) and the other child sites can't see us across the network. The users at the child sites (which have their own users for each site setup on the DC's at their sites) can not log on to their computers. They each log on to their own domain with their own username and password which is stored on their local DC. So, until we restore our network connection and the remote DC's can see the GC here at the parent site, nobody can logon to their systems.

Is there a cure?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

 

[brontosaurus]

Hey, cut that out Patty!!!

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

te he he

 

[Davetoo]

Patty,

Based then upon the link you provided (good info...thanks!), since I have two DC's here at my parent domain (company.com), I would be better served to make one of them the GC, and the other the Infrastructure Master Domain Controller?

Thanks.

Dave

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

Dave,

As Bronto pointed out, this 'mix' of roles should not be a problem if all DC's in the domain are Global Catalogs. Previously I did not know that was the case. So, you could do it either way...make them both GC's or isolate the Infrastructure role on a machine that is not a GC.

Have fun...

Patty

 

[Davetoo]

Patty, Bronto, et. al,

Thank you!

Dave