RE: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC

[Mulnick, Al]

Title: Set Preferred DC

Hmmm...Removing DNS entries might be a little drastic.  IIRC, netdom might hold what you look for in terms of a utility, but for Win2K and XP workstations what besides site boundaries are you looking for?  For 9x you can't even say for certain they will use domain creds so setting lmhosts is as good as it gets IMHO.   Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Willem Kasdorp Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC That's easy. On W2000 and XP, remove the DNS servers from the IP settings, and put the relevant DC entries in the HOSTS file. For W9x, set #DOM and 1b records in LMHOSTS. That way you insure the can only find the DC's you want them to.   --    Regards, Willem   P.S.   > If we could just skip over that whole bit it would be great. That was pretty hard, but I did it!     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Westmoreland Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Set Preferred DC   Ok Guys, I am about to ask a question that may stir up a great deal of conversation about "Good Practice" and "Avoiding Hard Coded Entries", If we could just skip over that whole bit it would be great.  That being said, I need to control the logonserver of individual machines running operating systems ranging from win98, to NT4.0, win2k, and winXP.  This is a mixed mode active directory domain in a typical branch office deployment single domain, single forest.  Again this needs to be on individual machines so please don't respond with a  DNS answer, I'm looking for a reg hack or a utility like setprfdc.exe that will work in an ActiveDirectory Domain on all of the previously mentioned operating systems. Thanks, Brent