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 create the subnet for each of the smaller sites and associate that subnet with the datacenter site where the DC lives OR would I create a new site for for each of the smaller locations and create a site link to the datacenter site where the DC lives? I was under the impression that creating site links would only be for sites that have a DC and facilitate replication and not for pointing users to a DC. I have been researching this and am confused on what I am reading. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!