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Domain Controller? - DHCP Options

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Oksana Goertzen

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Jan 22, 2004, 3:30:45 PM1/22/04
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In running DHCP from NetWare 6.0 sp3, we need a value to point users at
the Domain Controller. We run Active Directory for a few applications
and so users have to authenticate to AD. Anyone know what value this
should be - I'm assuming it should go under DHCP options.

Thanks in advance, Oksana

Brad Doster

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Jan 22, 2004, 10:39:05 PM1/22/04
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Nope, DHCP has no options for NETBIOS domain controllers, and AD domain
controllers, if not using NETBIOS, are resolved via DNS. You can point
the clients to a WINS server, which helps with NETBIOS resolution,
using DHCP Option 44. It's hard to tell exactly what you're after and
what your needs are though.

bd
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Peter Rowe

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Jan 23, 2004, 3:26:41 AM1/23/04
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In my experience you will have to point the primary DNS to the Active Directory DNS server or certain things will not work correctly. But that should be all you need for authentication etc.

peter.

>>> Brad Doster<b...@NSCSysOps.net> 23/01/2004 03:39:05 >>>

Brad Doster

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Jan 23, 2004, 10:29:57 AM1/23/04
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Yep, that should work for AD domains... don't know why I got my head
stuck in NETBIOS ??? <g>

Oksana Goertzen

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Jan 23, 2004, 3:28:35 PM1/23/04
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How exactly do I do that? Under our internal domain facswaterloo.org
under zone type, I have primary and all my NW servers are listed as
authoritative. We have AD for a number of users who require the
services of Windows servers. Should that say instead secondary and I
should I list the name of the server that is a DC for AD? I've been
running DNS/DHCP from NW at two other remote locations where there are
no AD users and it's all worked wonderfully, now I need to run DHCP
where we have users in the domain. I don't want to mess up what is
already working.

Thanks!
Oksana

Brad Doster

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Jan 23, 2004, 10:58:30 PM1/23/04
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Much of "how...?" depends on whether your domain(s) hosted by NW are
the same as your AD domain. In any event, the workstations where the
domain users login will need the AD server listed as their primary DNS
server.

Oksana Goertzen

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Jan 26, 2004, 10:51:26 AM1/26/04
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The domain hosted by NW is the same as the AD domain. Some users have
AD domain accounts and all have NW accounts. I can set information
passed to the user during DHCP to have an AD server listed as the first
DNS server and a NW server as secondary.

I don't have to change then how the NW DNS servers are set up, right?

Thanks, Oksana

Brad Doster

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Jan 26, 2004, 9:12:55 PM1/26/04
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In article <2IaRb.2298$vr5....@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, Oksana
Goertzen wrote:
> I can set information
> passed to the user during DHCP to have an AD server listed as the first
> DNS server and a NW server as secondary.
>
> I don't have to change then how the NW DNS servers are set up, right?
>
Yep, that should do it.

Oksana Goertzen

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Feb 2, 2004, 3:02:16 PM2/2/04
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Seems to be working, thanks!

Brad Doster

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Feb 2, 2004, 10:46:23 PM2/2/04
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Good to hear. Thanks for the report back!
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