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[rianeiromiron]

Last week I had to suffer because the link to the central office was down. This didn´t allow us to access our Exchange accounts but this was the lesser of the problems. The worst thing was we weren´t able to log into the domain and access files saved in the DC. How do I configure my DC in order to let users log into DC/Server or at least access each user´s files. I have a mix of 2000, 98 and 95 systems and the DC has 2000 Server.



Thanks.



Rianeiro

 

[Stevehewitt]

Hey,

You don't mention much about your infrastructre. Do you have a server locally (RRAS/File server?). If so you can set a group policy to allow clients (I think this only works with NT O/S though, & possibly Win98 with the AD client installed - needs checking) to cache Domain Usernames/Passwords for x amount of logons. This means users can logon even if the PDC/BDC is unavaliable for x amount of logons (say 10). This wouldn't solve the problem of files being unaccessible. Only files stored on the local server will be avalible.

The way around this is to setup the server as a BDC, enable replication and then have offline files. I am not too sure about this - so I would recommend looking it up. I think its a simple as users (although maybe a policy as well) marking files/folder (e.g. My Docs) as offline. Every logon/logoff they do the files get sync'd with the server.

Steve Hewitt