if the BDC doesn't see the domain from his own copy, you've got other issues... you should be able to bring up the BDC all alone and he'll still see the domain in read-only until/unless he's promoted to PDC ... Is the Computer Browser service running on the BDC ? what happens from the command line if you execute a 'NET VIEW' command ?
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NT issue 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/> ~
