[windows2000] Re: PDC Emulator
- From: "Rod Falanga" <rjfalanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:37:28 -0700
Yes, it help, Chris, thank you! :)
Rod
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> From: "Chris Berry" <compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: PDC Emulator
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:40:42 -0800
>
>
> Ok, its not too complicated, basically in windows 2000 there is no PDC
and
> BDC, only Domain Contollers all of which are equal. Now that said,
there
> are a few master services such as the globabl catalog server that are
> created on the first DC in your domain, but you can move them around,
they
> aren't tied to one particular machine. In essence however all Domain
> Controllers in win2k are equal, however to maintain backwards
> compatibility
> with NT4.0 (which requires a PDC be present) win2k has a PDC emulator
that
> pretends to be the PDC for NT machines. In this way you can use win2k
and
> NT4.0 in what is called a "Mixed" environment, some of the features of
> win2k
> are not available except in "Native" mode but you can't use native
mode
> unless you have no machines except for win2k (and I think XP is also
ok)
> this includes NT, Linux, Mac, etc. The PDC Emulator will be on the
first
> machine that you created in the domain, though you can move it to
another
> one if you need to for some reason. Hope that helps.
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
> "And here in our server room you can see our Beowolf Cluster of C64's
that
> keeps our enterprise on the very cutting edge of technology."
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