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hey there :) don't know why but it takes a while before I can reach computers in my AD network by their hostnames. I often have to end up looking for them at the router's status page (OpenWrt) is it because I'm letting the router be the DHCP server instead of my samba AD DC? if that's the case, how should I go on about setting the DC to be the DHCP server and how do I link it to

I'm about to deploy a new directory since I had only one Windows Server 2019 DC and its storage died out (specifically, a block/page where part of ntdis.dit happened to be stored because I was able to rescue everything else. amazing) Anyways, this time around I definitely need to have a backup DC. I planned to have Windows be the primary DC and samba be the backup. I wanted to know what

Windows clients Sometimes it's not long and happens eventually but sometimes it's been hours since the computer was booted and the DNS records still point to their previous IP address and I have to go look for their current IP address on the router's status page to connect via RDP to them Hmph. So I'm at Microsoft's mercy here? Is there not a way to run a DHCP server on the