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Simon
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:05 pm    Post subject: Logging on issue Reply with quote
Hi

This is baffling me......If one of our servers goes down (which
unfortunately is happening at the moment) A few people are unable to log onto
the network. We have AD setup with 4 DC's, all of which replicate with no
problems. I was under the impression that by having multiple DC's there would
never be this logon issue, as client PC's would be able to log onto another
server. Even after a reboot the client PC's still will not logon until the
server is up and running again!! Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simon
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Danilo Bordini [MVP]
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:05 pm    Post subject: RE: Logging on issue Reply with quote
Simon, What kind of clients are we talking ? Because some old clients
(Windows 9.x, NT 4) by default needs contact DC holds PDC Emulator during
logon process.


"Simon" wrote:

Quote:
Hi

This is baffling me......If one of our servers goes down (which
unfortunately is happening at the moment) A few people are unable to log onto
the network. We have AD setup with 4 DC's, all of which replicate with no
problems. I was under the impression that by having multiple DC's there would
never be this logon issue, as client PC's would be able to log onto another
server. Even after a reboot the client PC's still will not logon until the
server is up and running again!! Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simon
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Simon
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:27 pm    Post subject: RE: Logging on issue Reply with quote
We are talking Windows XP/2000. I can see the server i'm logging onto by
typing set at the command line, is there any way to change this?

"Danilo Bordini [MVP]" wrote:

Quote:
Simon, What kind of clients are we talking ? Because some old clients
(Windows 9.x, NT 4) by default needs contact DC holds PDC Emulator during
logon process.


"Simon" wrote:

Hi

This is baffling me......If one of our servers goes down (which
unfortunately is happening at the moment) A few people are unable to log onto
the network. We have AD setup with 4 DC's, all of which replicate with no
problems. I was under the impression that by having multiple DC's there would
never be this logon issue, as client PC's would be able to log onto another
server. Even after a reboot the client PC's still will not logon until the
server is up and running again!! Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simon
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Danilo Bordini [MVP]
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:35 pm    Post subject: RE: Logging on issue Reply with quote
Did you configurate sites (AD Sites and Services) and subnets IPs ? Clients
will get these informations to process and choose a logon server (querying
DNS records too)


"Simon" wrote:

Quote:
We are talking Windows XP/2000. I can see the server i'm logging onto by
typing set at the command line, is there any way to change this?

"Danilo Bordini [MVP]" wrote:

Simon, What kind of clients are we talking ? Because some old clients
(Windows 9.x, NT 4) by default needs contact DC holds PDC Emulator during
logon process.


"Simon" wrote:

Hi

This is baffling me......If one of our servers goes down (which
unfortunately is happening at the moment) A few people are unable to log onto
the network. We have AD setup with 4 DC's, all of which replicate with no
problems. I was under the impression that by having multiple DC's there would
never be this logon issue, as client PC's would be able to log onto another
server. Even after a reboot the client PC's still will not logon until the
server is up and running again!! Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simon
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Simon
Guest
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:39 pm    Post subject: RE: Logging on issue Reply with quote
I don't recall configuring anything in there, the only thing i use that
console for is to force replication from time to time.

"Danilo Bordini [MVP]" wrote:

Quote:

Did you configurate sites (AD Sites and Services) and subnets IPs ? Clients
will get these informations to process and choose a logon server (querying
DNS records too)


"Simon" wrote:

We are talking Windows XP/2000. I can see the server i'm logging onto by
typing set at the command line, is there any way to change this?

"Danilo Bordini [MVP]" wrote:

Simon, What kind of clients are we talking ? Because some old clients
(Windows 9.x, NT 4) by default needs contact DC holds PDC Emulator during
logon process.


"Simon" wrote:

Hi

This is baffling me......If one of our servers goes down (which
unfortunately is happening at the moment) A few people are unable to log onto
the network. We have AD setup with 4 DC's, all of which replicate with no
problems. I was under the impression that by having multiple DC's there would
never be this logon issue, as client PC's would be able to log onto another
server. Even after a reboot the client PC's still will not logon until the
server is up and running again!! Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simon
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