Yeah--and the same thing doesn't work from the PDC, right? Also, from the BDC, can you connect to a share on the PDC, such as \\pdc\netlogon, or does that fail? If so, then the BDC's computer account might be out of sync with the domain.
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roaming profiles issue The only way I could think of to test this was to fire up IE, and put \ \BDC_name\profiles_share into the address bar. This did return a directory listing of the profiles. Is this kind of what you were referring to? On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Miller Bonnie L. wrote: > Assuming the server service is running, can you connect back to a > UNC path share of the BDC while on the BDC? If so, the suggestion > about the DCs being out of sync could be correct and you might have > to look at using tools to reset the computer account on the BDC-- > IIRC that would be nltest and/or netdom? > > -bonnie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:47 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Roaming profiles issue > > There are no WINS servers set on the BDC, and I don't believe WINS is > running anywhere. There is no WINS service on the PDC. The BDC is > using LMHOSTS. I can ping the PDC both by name and IP. > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Miller Bonnie L. wrote: > >> How is WINS? Can the BDC get name lookups to the PDC and the domain >> name that way? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:30 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Roaming profiles issue >> >> Good morning, >> >> I'm having a roaming profile issue this morning on a (don't laugh) >> Windows NT domain. A few of our legacy PCs login to the old NT >> domain >> for their roaming profiles. When users login, they get an error that >> their profile is not available. >> >> There is a PDC and a DBC. Profiles are on the BDC. The PDC and BDC >> can see each other, and I can browse the shares on both, but when I >> go >> into the shares, I get an inaccessible error. From my laptop, which >> is not part of the domain, I can open files on the PDC, but not on >> the >> BDC. In the event viewer of the BDC I'm getting an Event ID:3096. >> The Windows NT domain controller for this domain could not be >> located. >> >> Any idea what might be wrong? We had a power outage last night, but >> this is the only issue we're running into. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eric Brouwer >> IT Manager >> www.forestpost.com >> er...@forestpost.com >> 248.855.4333 >> >> >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > Eric Brouwer > IT Manager > www.forestpost.com > er...@forestpost.com > 248.855.4333 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com er...@forestpost.com 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
