LOGONSERVERS and SITES

[Eimis]

Hello,

We have one domain topology with additional domains in each sites. Each
site has different subnets (192.168.0.0, 192.168.50.0, etc.,)
I have created one site under AD Sites and Services = COMPANYNAME.org and
all of the subnets belong to that SITE.
Now when users logs on, they login to various DC's which might be over WAN
in different location.
Chicago users sometimes might login to Boston DC's, PaloAlo users sometimes
logs in to Boston or Chicago and other ways around.
How can we force it so that local computers would log in to they local DC.


P.S. We had set up before each Site with they own subnets, that WORKED
great, but if they local domain controller is down or unavailable then it
takes very long time to find another domain controller for pc to
authenticate.

Any Help would be very appreciated !


Thank you,

Eimis

 

[Jason]

You had it right the first time. You need to have a site
for each separate location. You should have two DCs in
each site and at least one of them should be a GC. You
can get away with having one DC in each site as long as
it is a GC(and it can handle the number of users in the
site), but then you have no fault tolerance.

 

[Jack]

The whole reason you have subnets associated with sites is
so the clients know where to login. That is the only way
that clients know which dc to use. You'll have to split
your subnets back up.

-Jack

 

[Eimis]

Thank you, very much for reply

Eimis

-----Original Message-----
The whole reason you have subnets associated with sites is
so the clients know where to login. That is the only way
that clients know which dc to use. You'll have to split
your subnets back up.

-Jack which
might be over WAN in
to they local DC.
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