Authenticating to wrong DC

From: RichardB (RichardB_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/15/04

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:31:03 -0800

Hello

I have a seperate Domain Controller 600 miles away which most of our Users
are authenticating to. How do you set it to use the GC here? I thought
that by default that AD would look at the local Domain controller first.

Thanks in advance
RichardB

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