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by trudy's support 1 view

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I have four (soon to be five) sites that are bridged on the same virtual network. My WAN. I have a corp location that is the has the domain I set as the forest. I want to set up each location as child domains of this first domain, but want to have all my users managed from the original forest domain. Is this possible? What do I need to do? Will the two way trusts that are set up allow me to log onto any of these domains from any of the locations.

I tried to join a server (Everything is Win2K across the enterprise) and I kept recieving errors that the domain could not be found. It is a secondary DNS server for the master which is the first domain controller. I have it setup so the forest.com is the first, and only domain I have set up, and it is on it's own controller. I two other servers that I want to join to this...corp.forest.com, or preferably as additional domain controllers for forest.com...I'm fairly lost, and am sure you are to as well. In summary...

Beginning of Enterprise
forest.com
Desire to have two additional controllers, and all user accounts in this domain.

I would like to then set up these child domains, and have users log in with thier accounts from the forest.com domain.
north.forest.com
south.forest.com
central.forest.com
southcentral.forest.com

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by nmead

Unless you have a VERY good reason to have multiple domains, DON'T! The only (good) reasons are politics and (password) policies. Other than that, you are doing nothing but carrying over the 'domain' architecture from NT4. You would much betteroff taking what you want for domains and creating OU's for management and delegation. Just create an OU at the top-level(where your north, south, etc) for your users that will need to traverse these OU's all other users can go into an OU underneath the geographic OU's for better resource management.

hth,
Nate

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