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| Title: | Windows NT |
| Notice: | See note 15.0 for HCL location |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN .com::FOLEY |
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| Created: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6086 |
| Total number of notes: | 31449 |
5686.0. "Newbie PDC/BDC questions" by VFOVAX::WILLIAMS () Wed Feb 12 1997 07:47
My daughter's elementary school wishes to network their computers.
The network will consist of about 30 Windows 95 PCs and 30 Macs.
I suggested using Windows NT Server, with a single domain model.
My question is, can I (should I?) configure a box as a PDC and
also use it as a file server? Or does the PDC have to be
dedicated to login authentication/directory database management?
There will not be a high volume of logins, so a dedicated PDC
seems wasteful.
A related question is: can students sit down at the BDC and log
into their domain accounts? Or can only administrators/operators use it?
Again, money is tight, and it seems like a waste to dedicate a machine
solely as a BDC.
Lastly, would anyone care to speculate on the server hardware to support
this user base (all workstations running ClarisWorks for instance)?
One 200MHz pentium, 64MB RAM, 2 SCSI disks? Two pentiums, one for the PC
files, one for the Mac files?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Bob Williams
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| 5686.1 | | 2954::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Wed Feb 12 1997 07:51 | 12 |
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The PDC can be a file server. That's not a problem.
A Pentium 200 should be more than powerful enough for
that task. (PDC/File/print/web server)
You will need to grant the appropriate right to those users
that need to log onto the server system. I'd resist the
urge to let students onto it tho.
mike
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| 5686.2 | | USCD::mko-ras-port-2.mko.dec.com::David Heuss | Forward into the past.... | Thu Feb 20 1997 05:15 | 12 |
| You can certainly get away with a single NT server for both, but this
leaves you with no failover and no backup of the SAM. I'd be tempted
to try to convince them to get a second smaller system (perhaps a 133
mhz Pentium) to use as the PDC. Use your larger system as the file
server and make it a BDC. That way you're SAM will be automatically
backed up by replication and if the PDC goes south you can promote
the BDC and be back on the air. Also, you could add additional disks
to the smaller PDC and back your fileserver up to it over the
network, giving you a temporary backup for the file server (or at
least the more important files on it).
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