bruce
Sat Mar 29 14:00:32 PDT 2008
Thanks. I understand. If I use dcpromo.exe to "demote" the server, then run it
again, will I have the option to put the server in the same forest, or do I
need to do a new install ?
In article <eUV2FDFkIHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, "Phillip Windell"
<philwindell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"dave goldman" <dgoldman@qmsdc.com> wrote in message
>news:47ec0022$0$28227$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
>> Perhaps I configured the Server2 incorrectly when installing. I remember
>> choosing "no" when asked if this domain was to exist in a forest w/ other
>> domain controllers.
>
>Then you created multiple Forests with a single Domain within each Forest.
>
>> My intention is for each of the domain controlers to function as "PDC's
>> in seperate
>> domains.
>
>There is a PDC FSMO "Role",...but there is no such thing as a PDC or BDC
>after NT4.
>The Domain is no longer at the highest level or top of the food-chain,...the
>Forest is at the highest level and the Domain exists below that.
>
>For the multiple Forests you created to trust each other you will have to
>set up DNS Zone Transfers between the DC in one Domain/Forest to the DC in
>the other Domain/Forest. This way the two Forests will be "aware" of each
>others DNS Tree and you will be able to establish a Flat Inter-Forest Trust.
>
>If this is too much work,...then start over with the second DC and when you
>promote it again you need to choose one of the other options in the *same
>existing* Forest. You can have two Domains in a Forest that are at an
>"equal" level,...or you can have two Domains with one below the other
>(Parent/Child model). I believe all Domains within a Forest are
>automatically aware of each other DNS Tree and the Trust shouldn't be a
>problem.
>
>Others with more experience with this are welcome to tweek my details if I
>am not quite correct.
>
>
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