random logon servers

[Guest]

clients in the network are loging on to random servers.we have one site .can anybody help me to figure out how to get them logon to nearest dc
thanx

 

[Michael D. Ober]

They login to the server that responds first.

Mike Ober.

clients in the network are loging on to random servers.we have one site

..can anybody help me to figure out how to get them logon to nearest dc.

 

[Guest]

is there any way that a client logs on to a particular server.like by ip address or anyways the server close to it

----- Michael D. Ober wrote: ----

They login to the server that responds first

Mike Ober

clients in the network are loging on to random servers.we have one sit

..can anybody help me to figure out how to get them logon to nearest dc

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

You can use Sites and Services to create different subnets where these
Domain Controllers live. The clients will try to hit their local one first
and if get no reponse then they go to any that respond.

--
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

is there any way that a client logs on to a particular server.like by ip

address or anyways the server close to it.

 

[Simon Geary]

In a domain with a single site the client will pick a DC at random from the
site-wide DC list in DNS, it's not a case of which DC replies first.
Authentication requests are not broadcasts that any DC can pick up and
action.

In a single AD site it is assumed that all DC's are well connected and on
the same subnet so if this is the case all DC's should (in theory) be local.
If this is not the case you maybe want to look reconfiguring your AD sites.
What is your network topology like, are all the DC's in the same subnet?

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

Use Sites and Services.

Regards,
/Jimmy
--
Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
---------- www.qadvice.com ----------

clients in the network are loging on to random servers.we have one site

..can anybody help me to figure out how to get them logon to nearest dc.

 

[Simon Geary]

Create new sites in AD Sites & Services that map to your physical office
location. When these are defined correctly clients will attempt to log on to
their local DC before trying a remote one.

we have dcs in different subnet.and we have physically disatnt

offices.problem arises when client gets logon server in other office.