Windows 2000 track general

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DHcP ?

ctrlaltdel

2002-11-15, 5:03 pm

Question for some of the brains out there
Is it possible to have 2 DHCP servers
on 1 network ?
One a NT4.0 PDC and another running SBS 2000
which is also a domain controller but they are each in their own domain.
I have each one configured with different scopes.
Thanks

Luchnia

2002-11-15, 6:23 pm

quote:
I have each one configured with different scopes.

Well, it seems you already have two by the above statement? I am not much of a brain and not sure about the NT, but I think with 2k server you can use scopes for more granular control, superscopes for combining scopes, and the 80/20 rule for scope ranges, that way you build in a little fault tolerance should one of your DHCP servers should go "wop" in the middle of the night.

Throw a few zillion users on each domain and see if that fibre optic can handle it

twister166

2002-11-19, 10:53 pm

if all you want is to give address, yeah, it sure will...

But if you are looking into more things, they can be problems... You said both NT4 and SBS2k are domain controller of their prespective domains... So, that means that the SBS2k has AD on it which require DNS, so if you register your workstation in DNS using DHCP, the WS that get the address from NT4 will not register into the DNS in SBS2K... then it really depends on what are you doing in your network, W2k may not authenticate based on the Kerbrose...

Good luck...

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