We have a W2K domain with about 6 DC's, 2 of which are laptops. We do this so we can take a DC laptop along with about 4 auditors/users and set up a travelling network, that way they can share files, get mapped to network drives, have files available offline, etc. When we used NT4.0 as the BDC's on the laptops, the speed of the travelling network was fine, but now with the W2K servers, that travelling network is very slow. I think the DC is looking for a WINS server, DNS server, etc, that is not present while out on the road. Is there any timeout tweaks that I can do, or any tips on where to look for this slowdown? Thanks, C
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Travelling network w/ a laptop DC is very slow
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install DNS on the laptops as secondary servers for your zones. that should help....making them GC's may help as well.
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Is there a way to make them Global Catalog Servers? I don't know of a wizard that will do that...I would like to find out how to do that anyway because our current 'main' server (DNS, GC) was never meant to be the permanent main server...Thanks,
brontosaurus
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When they're on your home network, fire up AD Sites and Services. Drill down into Default-FirstSite-Name\Servers till you see the DC you want to update. Expand that, and right click NTDS settings, choose Properties. The GC checkbox is in there. Allow time for replication.
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