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allman

Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:17:22 AM

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Hi,

We have 100+ buildings scattered in a radius of 40 km. Each building is connected to HQ and will have a dedicated IP range (1024 hosts). There are about 10-300 computers in a building, both thick and thin clients. They are named pc001, pc002 and so on. I run "dcpromo" to set up a Windows 2003 domain "example.com" with DHCP, DNS and WINS services at HQ.

Now, what I wish to achieve is the following...

If pc256 is at building 1, it should resolve to pc256.building1.example.com
If pc256 is at building 2, it should resolve to pc256.building2.example.com
:
If pc256 is at building 100, it should resolve to pc256.building100.example.com

...regardless if pc256 is a member of the "example.com" windows 2003 domain or not.

Is this possible in the Windows domain world? If so, how?

Note: we've looked into it a bit, but from what we've seen / heard, this is not possible or recommended because in the Windows world, you must have a dedicated Windows domain for each DNS subdomain. Please confirm or provide a few tips about how it could be done. Thanks!

A.

Ikariux

Posted: Friday, May 15, 2009 6:24:23 AM

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Hi

If you want normal solution you need to create child domain for each of your buildings.

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