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charlie4872
Jun 01, 2021Brass Contributor
Authenticating users without local DC
Hello All. We are looking to setup a few smaller sites with no DC in those sites. My question is, to point those users in those smaller sites to authenticate to a DC in one of our datacenters would I...
Seshadrr
Jun 02, 2021Iron Contributor
Please create a site and associate the necessary subnet for site-Subnet mapping and followed by for DC-Less sites, please update the DNS Site LDAP priority and those Scopes based DNS option to target the data center for proximity authentication.
charlie4872
Jun 02, 2021Brass Contributor
Seshadrr Thanks for the response. Are you referring to changing these DNS records under "Sites" in DNS and pointing the records to the DC's in the datacenter?
- SeshadrrJun 03, 2021Iron ContributorIf you need proximity for the data center, which can be stunned via LDAP priority set to Datacenter DC or your site's clients Ipaddress leased by DHCP, then use the DNS server option as Datacenter get immediate DNS resolution in that way the proximity auth will be nearest.