[THIN] Re: slightly OT: ActiveDirectory resilience
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:25:58 -0000
Um, the GC being unavailable, will affect login - I'm not saying
*prevent* login, but it will affect it, for sure.
Same with the PDCe depending on what happens at login, and the type of
client machine.
Most of the FSMO roles are quite irrelevant to login, though.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Lilley
> Sent: 11 March 2004 10:25
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] slightly OT: ActiveDirectory resilience
>
> "A termite walks into a bar and says s'the bar tender here?"
>
> My customer has a two domain controller win2k AD based forest
> hosting a citrix fr3 farm. For reasons best known to the
> customer, they have a totally seperate win2k AD forest which
> hosts an NT4 workstation base.
>
> Some bloke in the pub told them that if their first dc which
> held all five operational master roles plus the global
> catalogue function failed, then users would be unable to
> logon?? I disagree with this comment because the failure of
> the three forest wide master roles plus the GC should not
> prevent user logon. It may prevent, in some circumstances,
> problems adding objects?? Other than, that I imagine that
> the domain would continue normally.
>
> As far as I am concerned, the GC simply holds a subset of the
> 'domain partition' bit of the active directory databases from
> other domains within the same forest and would have no
> bearing on logon??
>
> Please tell me I am right....
>
> Brianos McChips
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