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Tony, Thanks for the response. All
subnets are configured correctly in Active Directory and all workstations are
correctly identifying what site they are suppose to be in. DNS settings are
also correct. In sniffing the traffic I forgot to mention that even though the
machine knows what site it is in (based on the registry entry) it will still
occasionally contact another site for information. I asked my boss the very
same question why not more GCs at our site and while he agrees maybe more would
be fine he also does not believe that is the problem. Jeremy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tony Murray Hi Jeremy The problem with machines
contacting DCs in other sites could be related to your subnet definitions in
AD. Check to see that all subnets are registered in AD and are associated
with the appropriate site. Also check your DNS settings, especially
on the machines displaying the problem. While your problems
don’t sound like they could be related to the number of GCs, you should
perhaps consider why you only have 2 out of a possible 5. Is there any
reason why you could not make all of your DCs GCs? Tony From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] Everyone,
We have an empty root domain and a child domain with approximately 9 or so
sites in the forest. The root domain has 2 DCs (1 GC) and the child
domain has 3 DCs (1GC) both of which are located in our main site. At our
main site where I am located we have approximately 500 users. The best
scenario I can give you is we do PC rollouts where we take a large number of
PCs 30-50 at a time and rename them with an old extension in the host name then
we bring a new machine onto the network with the same name. Sometimes we
get an error saying the computer account already exists in the organization
when we try to name the new machine with the same name, but the issue is
inconsistent. I did some traffic sniffing with a PC and found that
approximately 50% of the time machines in our site are contacting servers in
other site for directory service information instead of our site DCs.
Even machines that have been on the network are not using local site DCs for
information all the time but using other site DCs instead. I am wondering
what could be causing this. This configuration has been static for
sometime nothing new has been introduced except for Windows 2003 schema (could
this be the cause?). I think it is because we do not have enough GCs in
our site (2), but my boss disagrees. What does everyone think? Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and
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