How are you determining the clients are utilizing the PDCE for these activities? A network trace from the client may prove useful.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:51 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC Hi Guys, We are facing some strange issue, randomly clients from some sites are going to PDCe for group policy refresh,along with screensaver and wallpaper stored in netlogon. Clients are ignoring their nearest DC, and approaching PDCe. All DCs : Win2k3 SP1 All Clients: XP SP2 I verified, 1) DNS entries for site DC are correct. 2) Netlogon and Sysvol folder of site DC are accessible. 3) Verified the clients are authenticating with site DC by : nltest.exe /sc_query:DOMAIN 4) Verified DFS info for netlogon and sysvol on clients is correct : dfsutil.exe /pktinfo I am clueless where else, should I look? -- Kamlesh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You teach best what you most need to learn. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
