building a child domain

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connie Wiseman

I wonder if anyone could lend me a hand, We currently have
a windows 2000 forest called mcos.ie,we set up a child
domain galway.mcos.ie last year and this runs beautifully.
I now want to add another office in dublin in to our
forest. Due to constraints I have to set this chuld domain
up in the parent site and then once it is running it will
be sent to dublin, and the users will slowly be added in
from the existing windows 2000 forest. My problem is this
my network here is a class c network 192.168.0.* /24 my
gateway to the WAN is through a router 192.168.0.253. I am
currently setting up the server which will be the GC
server for my new Child domain dublin.mcos.ie it's details
are ip 192.168.33.100
subnet mask 255.255.252.0
gateway 192.168.35.253
dhcp scope 192.168.32.1 to 192.168.32.200
dns name server05.dublin.mcos.ie.
during the set up I obviously cant put in 192.168.35.253,
as the gateway address, as this address is the router in
the dublin office where this domain will be, and my
gateway is 192.168.0.253. If I put in the servers address
as the gateway, and build the child domain here on this
server and install its DNS, will I be able to just bring
this server to the new site and change the gateway on its
nic and expect the active directory in the parent domain
to find it? Any help with this is very much appreciated.
thanks
 
You didn't wrote how are your sites setup in AD, but you can install and
configure DC in one location and move it to another. As DC's are located
using DNS server, your server will reregister its records in Dublin this way
your other DC's will be able to locate it.
Just make sure, that you have Sites setup in your AD.

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Regards

Matjaz Ladava, MCSE (NT4 & 2000), Windows MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://ladava.com
 
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