BDC over WAN

[Pains2]

Hi All,

I moved our works servers to a new location and have a BDC setup over our WAN link to the PDC in our Head Office.

I put in a LMHOST file in the BDC with the PDC's information and i can synch without problems, but when i try to synch the BDC from the PDC i get an error that it can't be found.

Question:
Do i have to amend the LMHOST in our PDC to reflect the BDC?

Also, will it be the same as the PDC LMHOST file? or will it have some suffix to say it's a BDC??

Thanks for your help!

[YeOldeStonecat]

What OS are the servers? If you have BDC assuming it's NT 4.

Is the WAN setup with NetBIOS passing through? If NT4 should be able to handle through running WINS at "mothership". If 2K domain, just have all satellites point to the "motherships" DC which would be running DNS.

[Pains2]

Hi,

Yes NT4, I don't have wins running, but i do have the LMHOSTS running and i can see the PDC using the nbtstat -c in the BDC.

I just wanted to know if there was a someway of telling the servers in the LMHOSTS file what is the BDC.


Cheers, for you help

[twwabw]

using the #PRE #DOM<domainname> entry will tell the server what the domain controller is. You don't care what the BDC is. That is set up through replication.

But without WINS running, resolution will need to be totally dependent on hosts files. As YOSC pointed out, you need WINS running in the first site. This is one of the problems with NT wan setups. You need to pass that WINS info across the pipe.

Just as a personal note- why would you company put any time, effort, pr money into an NT4 setup? Isn't it time to move up? Just curious

[Pains2]

Unfortunatly upgrade is a dirty word within our company :cry:

Thanks for the help!!