nostaglic98 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I have a rather irritating issue that needs resolving regarding Active Directory and DNS. You see, I run a File Server and Active Directory at home. Whilst its all setup and working, I find that I have to manually enter the details of the DNS server into the computers that I have, otherwise, they will not use the active directory to get DNS information, and everything falls in a big heap. I'm wondering if there is some way to ensure that computers that connect automatically are aware of the DNS servers that they must be running - Is this something that is done via the computer, or via the router and its interface. Any requests un-resolvable by the DNS will be forwarded onto the router, where they are then put over to Google DNS. Should I turn of the DNS on the router - or merely direct it to put requests to the local server which will then forward to Google itself. OS is Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Clients typically run Windows 7 (Hey - It was cheap, and works well for what it does).Network lies behind a "typical" router with a hardware Firewall and NAT enabled. Cheers for any advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 dhcp can give out dns server addresses, although you might want to run something supported if it's online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nostaglic98 Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 The system doesn't see use on the internet, and doesn't run facing the internet. It runs internally. However - it seems there are plenty of organisations that aren't concerned about that sort of thing, namely "Australia Post," who still use a Windows NT4 system for their website and online billing system... Anyway - I was able to more or less solve this problem. Unfortunately, the Thomson ISP supplied router will only set itself as DNS, so I had to use Telnet to configure the AD as the top DNS (which forwards to Google), then the two Google DNS servers in case I have to pull the server for any maintenance purposes.Thats the best that can be done at the moment, given these circumstances. I am hoping to put that router into bridge once I secure another Asus RT-N16 router, and load in DD-WRT. For the moment, it'll have to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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