Re: Force chosen the domain near to me.

Francesco wrote:
I have a Big network (ethernet), where there are many Domain
Controllers with the same Domain name domainname.com, I can't
manage the domain controllers.
But I'm connected on the domain with a PC (WXP) joined on the domain
domainname.com, if I try on the PC to Ping domainname.com I have an
answer from the domain controller placed in another country, but I
would like force WXP to have an answre from the domain placed near
to me

Why?
The Domain Controllers you connect to *are not* called 'domainname.com' -
they are called 'actualservername.domainname.com'.

Try this:
Start button --> RUN --> type in:

cmd /k set

--> Click OK.

In the command Prompt window that opens, scroll up and find the line that
starts:

LOGONSERVER=

The part after the equal sign is the ACTUAL name of the server you connect
to - most likely without the 'domainname.com' at the end. If you ping that
server - you should find it is relatively close to you (it was the first
domain controller to answer when you logged on.) The domain name itself may
be anywhere, really - in your case.

By the way - ethernet does not describe the size of your network.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/ethernet

What you have is a WAN (Wide Area Network).

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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