From: Eric Chamberlain (echamber@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 09:31:35 PDT
At 08:17 AM 4/8/2002 -0700, International & Area Studies wrote:
>Hi
>I've just replaced an old NT4 server which was acting as a BDC for the
>domain. When I installed the replacement, a Win2000 server, I added the
>computer to the domain as a Backup Domain Controller in Server manager. I
>could have added it as a plain old server, but didn't think there'd be any
>problems. It's been about an hour now, and so far everything is smooth.
>As I understand it, Win2000 servers can't function as BDCs in an NT 4
>environment (at least not without some effort) because replication doesn't
>work the same in the two formats, but I was wondering if there is anything
>unexpected that may pop up as a result on my PDC down the line as a result
>of my action.
>Thanks for any advice or warnings
>Bill Gross
Bill,
Windows 2000 machines cannot be BDCs. When your PDC fails, the Windows
2000 machine will not take over. I'm just guessing, but having the PDC
think the 2000 box is a BDC, will probably cause unnecessary traffic on the
network and wasted CPU cycles associated with building replication
information for a machine that will not accept it.
-- Eric Chamberlain, CISSP Campus Active Directory Architect Central Computing Services 297 Evans Hall University of California, Berkeley (510) 642-5551------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:
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