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[raptoid]

If i have two Win2k DC's are all users profiles stored on both servers? If not is there a way of automatically making this happen. The reason for this is in the event that one dc dies the other carrys on and people still have access to there profiles.

many thanks

 

[mayh3m]

Are you using active directory? If so, then each DC acts as a backup for the other. In other words, if one goes down, the other one holds the accounts and your domain will function as normal.

 

[raptoid]

yes we are. I have three sites each with a DC but i had one dc go down but the users still couldnt logon or sometimes it took several goes. Would it be beneficial to have 2 dc's on each site rather than my users logging on to another dc on another site

cheers

 

[mozingod]

If the DC's are in seperate sites, you need to specifically setup a link for replication to take place between them all. Only DC's in the same site automatically find each other and start replicating. If the number of users warrant it, you might consider adding another DC to each site to help spread out the load during peak login hours, and add that extra layer of redundancy. Darrell Mozingo
MCP (soon MCSA), A+, Network+, i-Net+, MOUS 2000 Master

 

[raptoid]

How do i setup a specific link for replication?

 

[mozingod]

In AD Sites & Services, expand the Sites, then the Default-First-Site-Name, then Servers. Right click, select New->Server, and type in the other DC's name. If you have a connection up around 128Kb, you can stick with the DEFAULTIPLINK in the Intersite-Transports/IP folder.
Right click the Subnets folder and select New->Subnet, and fill in a subnet. Go back to the server you made, right click it and get into its properties, and set it to use that DEFAULTIPLINK and subnet you just created. You can edit the server's NTDS settings to set when you want replication to occur, and a few other options, but this is the basic jist of it.

Hope it helps, and/or makes sense (I don't have a great deal of experience with this type of this myself and I hate explaining something when I don't know it very very well ). Darrell Mozingo
MCP (soon MCSA), A+, Network+, i-Net+, MOUS 2000 Master