DSfW (Was: Re: A good problem to have)

[Toomas Aas]

Alan Pearson wrote:

> Sorry to steal this thread, but what do you think about DSFW ?
> It's been on my radar for 2 years since it was announced, but I really
> can't see the benefit (except if you really need AD presentation).

In my case I really did need AD presentation, because our financial 
services people were sold an ERP software that absolutely requires AD 
(being made in Redmond).

> You can't have the novell client on the workstations that are in DSFW
> domain, which is a major loss (think login scripts + ZW intergration)

I have Novell client on workstations that are in DSfW domain. I also use 
Zenworks 7 Desktop Management, the agent is installed on workstations that 
are in DSfW domain and things are working. The only thing I changed was 
disabling DLU and letting the domain take care of local accounts on 
workstations.

Don't try to come and tell me I can't have that ;)

> I'm also not sure how multisite would work with each edir partition being
> a separate 'domain' ?

I don't have actual experience here (I have only one site) but what I 
remember from the docs, you create the first domain ('forest root domain') 
high in the tree, and subdomains under that (for example, O is the forest 
root domain and OUs can be subdomains). You can't have multiple domains in 
'adjacent' containers (such as having two O's as domains) and no more than 
10 total domains per tree. Some tree redesign might be required.

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Toomas Aas
... I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.