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How should I design my 'public' network of an project?
I'm thinking about doing some online projects as a Developer/IT Technician, and I have some concerns regarding security.
I'm unable to host my servers locally for my project and I thought why not to ...
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Remote Desktop Administration of AD DC DNS
I have an Active Directory Domain Controller that our organization uses. It also handles DNS. Administrators are allowed to add names to the DNS records.
Currently an administrator is having ...
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Updating AD DNS Records Dynamically from Excel Sheet
We have a Microsoft SBS 2011 server at work which handles DHCP and DNS for our company. We have an excel spreadsheet stored in a shared directory on the SBS itself of all the public IP addresses that ...
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Windows domain + Linux Domain on One Network
Currently our network is all tied to Active Directory with both Windows and Linux workstations/servers. We would like to implement a Free IPA server that synchronizes authentication between a Linux ...
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Have net ads join create a PTR record
When using the net ads join command to join a Linux host (CentOS 6.5) to a domain (Windows Server 2008 DCs), an A record is created but not a corresponding PTR record. Is it possible to have the PTR ...
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Is it standard practice to always have internal A records for an AD Domain point to GCs?
Full disclosure: I'm not an AD guy so this might pertain to something obvious. I apologize in advance if that's the case - I did try searching for prior questions regarding this.
I'm installing a ...
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How can I use a Linux BIND DNS server for my Active Directory forest?
I am trying to setup an Active Directory forest that uses a Linux BIND server for DNS. The goal is that the Domain Controller (DC) to be able to make entries in the /etc/bind/db.foresta.net file from ...
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Can I completely remove the Windows DNS in favour of BIND9 in an AD network?
I would like to remove the DNS feature of Windows Domain Controllers and point the DNS servers to our BIND9 servers.
I know it's possible to setup coexistence but this requires a number of extra ...
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Can you have multiple writable, authoritative BIND DNS servers for the same zone, like AD-integrated DNS?
In an AD-integrated DNS system, there really isn't a concept of one "Master" DNS server; all AD-integrated zones are authoritative and updatable across all DNS servers, and send updates to each other ...
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How should I integrate Active Directory with Windows clients and Linux clients and servers
I have Windows and Linux clients and I want to provide Active Directory authentication for both but keeping DHCP and DNS on Linux servers. Is this possible ? I have very little experience in ...
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After Windows Server Restore, no linux machines on our network have internet connections
Our DNS/Active Directory/file server crashed a couple of days ago. I rebuilt the machine and reinstalled Active Directory yesterday.
Now none of the linux machines on our network have internet ...
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Red Hat Server Becomes Unresponsive After Primary Domain Controller is Shut Down
We have a number of servers (application servers, web servers & ftp servers) running red hat 5 that are all virtual. We also have a similar setup that is Windows-based. Yesterday, our ...
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Connect Linux machine to a windows active directory
I have a Linux machine which connected to an Active Directory on Windows server.
I configured the NIC to get an IP from the DHCP (from the windows server)
However, when I try to nslookup <server ...
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reverse nslookup fails for single machine
I have a computer on a windows Active Directory network for which reverse dns lookup fails. It doesn't matter which machine runs the lookup. The problem computer is a debian vm on a windows server ...
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