A few questions regarding W2K Server.....

[PeeluckyDuckee]

We're doing a big lab @ school right now.

I was wondering if someone can show me where to set the computer policy refresh interval or where to speedy up replication among DCs? I recall that you can set this in some kind of policy GPO, but forgot where 🙁 There's 4 DCs in our lab and the things that we each do we want others to be in synch with fast.

Another thing is with roaming user profiles. How do I type that out exactly? %username% something something something ???

Don't you just hate it when you've done something in the past but can't recall it? That really bugs me, aargh.

Oh, one last thing before I forget. With regards to creating domain-based DFS and links and link replicas, we're supposed to have one DC host a DFS root, with 3 DFS links. We're also supposed to create two replicas each of the 3 DFS links on two other DCs. The way we did this is on the two other DCs, we've created 3 folders and shared them. On the DC that hosts the DFS and the 3 links, we created link replicas and pointed it to the appropriate shares on the two other DCs.

Is that the proper way to setting up the DFS, with regards to DFS link replicas? Do the two other DCs need to do anything with their own DFS?

Say when the DC hosting the DFS root and the 3 links, creates a file in a share called APPS. Now will that file be automatically copied to the two replica shares on the two other DCs??

PS: sorry for the poor grammar, punctuations, sentences 😛 as I'm typing this in a hurry!

Much thx for the help 🙂
Plucky

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

found out the way for GPO refresh, via secedit at the run command, not the command prompt as I am having troubles with that.

Also found out you have to goto the default DC security policy to allow users to logon locally onto the DC. Yah! 🙂

 

[stash]

The syntax for a profile path is \\servername\profile_share\%username% For example, if you are creating a user named test on a server named stash, you would type \\stash\profiles\%username% for the profile. The %username% variable will fill in test for you.

You would probably also want to set a home directory, meaning assigning a drive letter to a folder. So under home directory you would want to connect, say the Z drive to \\servername\home_folders_share\%username%

Also with win2k AD, you can do some pretty cool things with intellimirror. Instead of making the client machine download the entire profile at logon in, then copy the entire thing back with changes at logout, you can redirect many of the larger parts of the profile. Application settings and my documents are the big ones. Redirecting these folders will cut down on network traffic and logon/out times. With redirection, when the user clicks on My Documents on his desktop, he is actually viewing files stored on the server, rather than locally. The whole thing is seamless, and the user doesnt notice it. That way, his files are automatically stored on the network, where they can be backed up, rather than having them saved on his local hard drive, where they could easily be lost.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Thx for the info STash 🙂

Yeah, I think Server is pretty nifty. There's so much flexibility in configuring security, it can be a bit overwhelming, especially to newbies like me who are trying to learn the OS. A newbie to Unix as well, must say I'm not too excited about that OS yet, perhaps when I understand it more I will appreciate it more.

About that DFS question, anyone know how I should go about setting that up or is what I did the correct way of doing it?

Thx.
Plucky