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Primary Domain Controller Mode
A domain controller must exist on a network before you can create a domain. The domain
controller is the repository of user information. Different versions of Windows have
different levels of support for domain membership. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and
Windows XP Professional fully support domain membership. Users of these versions of
Windows can use a DiskGO to maintain user accounts and to use the additional security
features of domains. Windows 98 and Windows ME provide limited domain
membership support. Users of computers running on one of these Windows operating
systems can have their account information served by a DiskGO, but they cannot use the
additional security features of domains. Users of Windows XP Home Edition cannot use
PDC support in any way.
To configure the DiskGO 3.5” Network Hard Drive as a primary domain controller
1.
Select the
Primary Domain Controller Mode
check box.
2.
Type the domain name in the
Domain Name
box. Users who want to join
the domain must include the domain name in the logon information.
3.
Type the administrator user name in the
Admin User Name
box. The
administrator account is used to add, delete, and modify user and machine
accounts in the domain.
(The
administrator account is separate from the
one used to access the DiskGO Share user interface.)
4.
Type the administrator password in the
Admin Password
box and again
in the
Confirm Password
box.
5.
Click a pool in the
Profiles and Scripts Pool
list.
6.
Click a drive letter in the
Logon Drive
box.
•
Each domain may have only one PDC. If a PDC already exists in a given
domain, do not configure the DiskGO as a PDC+.
•
When operating as a PDC, a DiskGO stores some data about each user on
the disk. The
DiskGO software creates two shares within the pool given
here: profiles and netlogon.
•
Only Administrators need to be aware of these shares to ensur e that there
is
enough disk space.
•
The netlogon share contains the logon script described in Step 6.
•
For some versions of Windows, the operating system stores the user
environment (window layout
and menu items) in the profiles share.
•
When a user logs on to the domain, the user home directory is assigned
this drive letter. This
is essentially an implicit
net use
command.
7.
Type the name of the logon script in the
Logon Script
box.
Using the DiskGO 3.5” Network Hard Drive as a Primary Domain Controller
After the DiskGO is configured as a primary domain controller (PDC), you must add
each computer to the domain. Open the Windows Help and Support Center for
instructions on adding a computer to a domain.
