Good evening:

I have 2 Windows 2000 DC's & 1 Windows 2003 DC. The 2 2000 DCs are located
at our corporate office and the 2003 DC is at a remote site. I created a
new site & placed the 2003 within it. My goal is to reduce network traffic
by having the remote DC & users authenticating to the DC closest to them
(which is a 100mbps LAN connection as opposed to authenticating to the
corporate office over a slow WAN link).

My question is - how can I monitor which DC a user is authenticating to?
There must be a simple way to tell if they are authenticating to the server
closest to them...Thanks for your help in advance!

-J

If you're monitoring just one user you can go to a command prompt and type
set L
this will provide you with the DC that has currently authenticated the user.
If you want to monitor several users ScriptLogic provides some good tools.
Or you can probably write a script to assist with tracking logins and
authentications.

BT


"J." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Good evening:
>
> I have 2 Windows 2000 DC's & 1 Windows 2003 DC. The 2 2000 DCs are
located
> at our corporate office and the 2003 DC is at a remote site. I created a
> new site & placed the 2003 within it. My goal is to reduce network
traffic
> by having the remote DC & users authenticating to the DC closest to them
> (which is a 100mbps LAN connection as opposed to authenticating to the
> corporate office over a slow WAN link).
>
> My question is - how can I monitor which DC a user is authenticating to?
> There must be a simple way to tell if they are authenticating to the
server
> closest to them...Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> -J
>
>