Home / server / Questions / 541831
Accepted
estol
Asked: 2013-09-27 04:03:15 +0800 CST

How to define Active Directory Domain Service's network interface?

  • 772

How can I bind AD DS to a specific NIC? I have two NICs in a VM running Windows Server 2008 R2. One to connect to the physical network and one to connect to a few Windows 7 clients on a separate subnet. The multi-homed Server 2008 R2 guest runs AD DS, and I only want it to be bound to the interface which is connected to the other virtual machines. I couldn't figure out from the wizard, which interface will be used.

active-directory

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    First of all, you should not be multi-homing a domain controller.

    You cannot tell AD DS to bind to a specific network adapter. What you do in this instance is prevent one of the network adapters from automatically registering DNS records. This will prevent anything from trying to authenticate to that interface, as clients will not be able to locate it.

    • 6