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Remote BDC installation for NT4.0

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by gmdf

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I'm installing a BDC at remote site . My problem is during the installation, while the BDC is looking to PDC ( after key-in domain name and admin ID&password ), the BDC cannot find the PDC.

My question
1. What is the corrent way to setup DBC at remote
site

2. How to get connected to remote PDC while instaling new BDC at remote site

Thanks

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by lordinfidel

With NT4 you can not easily install a remote BDC.

Typically, back in the day before 2K, you would have to install your BDC first on the same local network that your PDC is on.

Then, on the pdc and every other bdc, you had to map an entry in lmhosts to the IP of the remote BDC.

On the remote BDC, you had to map the other bdcs and the pdc in lmhosts also. Making sure to include the #PRE and #DOM: prepends.

In 2K AD everything (resolution) takes place in DNS so it is a little easier. You just point the servers DNS to the DNS location that AD integrates with and as long as RPC traffic can flow between the 2 netwks, it will work. (But you do have to add another subnet into AD)

Anyways, that's the jist. Build it locally first, then ship it out.

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