Do you mean server manager? I'm not seeing a computer manager. In server manager, at the PDC, the PBC and BDC are recorded properly. At the BDC, I can't get into Server Manager. There is a remote procedure call error, and I get the option to connect to a different domain. I assume this is happening because the BDC is looking for the PDC to populate the information.
Trying to access User Manager from the BDC has similar results. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Goldoff" <egold...@gmail.com> Sent: Mon, December 29, 2008 21:54 Subject: RE: NT issue using the computer manager does the BDC *think* it's a PDC ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 8:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NT issue I figured out the SET command. I was wrong. The problem server is not a member, but a BDC. It authenticated to itself, but it is not seeing the PDC. For instance, I can not run User Manager on the BDC, and I am seeing Event ID:3096 in the logs. The message is about not finding a domain controller on the network. _____ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NT issue Server and Net Logon services are running on both servers. Yes, they are on the same subnet. How do I check the preferred server setting? How do I look at the environment variables from the command line? _____ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NT issue on the server look for the server service, and netlogon service ... are they on the same subnet ? Maybe check your WINS server too, and on the member server that won't authenticate you can check for an incorrect preferred server setting ( and from cmd look at environment variables for netlogon server ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NT issue Good evening, Yes, I am still running a few NT servers on an old network! We had a power outage, and now we're having authentication issues. The PDC seems to be coming up fine, but one of my NT member servers won't authenticate to it. I see a NETLOGON message in the event viewer stating no domain controllers could be found. How can I determine if the PDC is running properly? How can I verify the proper services are running, etc. to service logon requests? Thanks! Eric Brouwer IT Manager Forest Post Productions er...@forestpost.com (248) 855-4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
