RE: Active Directory Problem
Joe is correct. listen to Joe. Ibby, i just realized that i didn't tell you what machine to make those changes on. The property pages i mentioned below are on the Win 98 machines. but you probably figured that out... just want to make sure you don't go looking for those on your DC. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Joe Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem By default in a domain, the pdc should win the election. Unfortunately, Windoze98 thinks it's the man, and in my experience wins the election more often then not(I hate win9x). Check you event logs on the dc, see if it was forced into an election, and lost. jlc -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem i haven't had a win 98 in my possession in so long so i'm just going to guess where i think it might be... Go to the property pages of TCP/IP on your LAN settings and there should be a page where there is a pull down menu that shows browse functions. "Act as master browser", or some related syntax, is chosen by default on the machines i was working with. choose "Never" for browsing functions. that way the Win 98 machines will never win the browse election process. reboot those machines that were changed. sorry for the vagueness. it's been a while. contact me directly if you need further help. the actual screens escape me. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem Can you elaborate how to do this please. Thanks Ibby -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
It is in the Properties of File & Print sharing which is under Network, listed along with the protocols and adapters. Jeff -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem i haven't had a win 98 in my possession in so long so i'm just going to guess where i think it might be... Go to the property pages of TCP/IP on your LAN settings and there should be a page where there is a pull down menu that shows browse functions. "Act as master browser", or some related syntax, is chosen by default on the machines i was working with. choose "Never" for browsing functions. that way the Win 98 machines will never win the browse election process. reboot those machines that were changed. sorry for the vagueness. it's been a while. contact me directly if you need further help. the actual screens escape me. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem Can you elaborate how to do this please. Thanks Ibby -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
By default in a domain, the pdc should win the election. Unfortunately, Windoze98 thinks it's the man, and in my experience wins the election more often then not(I hate win9x). Check you event logs on the dc, see if it was forced into an election, and lost. jlc -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem i haven't had a win 98 in my possession in so long so i'm just going to guess where i think it might be... Go to the property pages of TCP/IP on your LAN settings and there should be a page where there is a pull down menu that shows browse functions. "Act as master browser", or some related syntax, is chosen by default on the machines i was working with. choose "Never" for browsing functions. that way the Win 98 machines will never win the browse election process. reboot those machines that were changed. sorry for the vagueness. it's been a while. contact me directly if you need further help. the actual screens escape me. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem Can you elaborate how to do this please. Thanks Ibby -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
i haven't had a win 98 in my possession in so long so i'm just going to guess where i think it might be... Go to the property pages of TCP/IP on your LAN settings and there should be a page where there is a pull down menu that shows browse functions. "Act as master browser", or some related syntax, is chosen by default on the machines i was working with. choose "Never" for browsing functions. that way the Win 98 machines will never win the browse election process. reboot those machines that were changed. sorry for the vagueness. it's been a while. contact me directly if you need further help. the actual screens escape me. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem Can you elaborate how to do this please. Thanks Ibby -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
Can you elaborate how to do this please. Thanks Ibby -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
I am able to restart the server and logon as "administrator", every time I try do something that needs to address the Domain I get errors. I only have the one server. So it appears that the server does know that it is hosting the domain. Please forgive my simplistic interpretation of what is happening. Ibby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem Before that I would check to see if your Account is Locked OUT. I have seen this error when mine gets locked out. Jeremiah -Original Message- From: Howard.Steinberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:37 PM To: ntsysadmin Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem I would start by checking your DNS server. ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Howard Steinberg, MCSE LAN Administrator Zepf Inc., Clearwater, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here for the Top TEN reasons you should have quick-change container handling parts for all your packaging machines! http://www.zepf.com/zepf/chngprts.htm -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
I do have DNS problem. Here is what the system log says: "The DNS proxy agent was unable to bind to the IP address 192.168.0.1. This error may indicate a problem with TCP/IP networking. The data is the error code." The Data (Bytes) is 1d 27 00 00 (word) 271d Any ideas? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem I would start by checking your DNS server. ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Howard Steinberg, MCSE LAN Administrator Zepf Inc., Clearwater, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here for the Top TEN reasons you should have quick-change container handling parts for all your packaging machines! http://www.zepf.com/zepf/chngprts.htm -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
since you have Win 98 machines floating around, i would check to make sure they are not acting as master browsers when the server is rebooted or down. i'm telling you this from the exact same experience i had. good luck. andy Andrew J. Lund, MCSE Systems Manager IEA - San Francisco -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
No doubt, more then one nic on diff subnets w/ ics or blocked ports get tricky on a dc. You probably did that all on one machine because of budget constraints, but that is not an "ideal" setup so to speak. I am betting its DNS issues as well! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem I would start by checking your DNS server. ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Howard Steinberg, MCSE LAN Administrator Zepf Inc., Clearwater, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here for the Top TEN reasons you should have quick-change container handling parts for all your packaging machines! http://www.zepf.com/zepf/chngprts.htm -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
Before that I would check to see if your Account is Locked OUT. I have seen this error when mine gets locked out. Jeremiah -Original Message- From: Howard.Steinberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:37 PM To: ntsysadmin Subject: RE: Active Directory Problem I would start by checking your DNS server. ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Howard Steinberg, MCSE LAN Administrator Zepf Inc., Clearwater, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here for the Top TEN reasons you should have quick-change container handling parts for all your packaging machines! http://www.zepf.com/zepf/chngprts.htm -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Active Directory Problem
I would start by checking your DNS server. ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Howard Steinberg, MCSE LAN Administrator Zepf Inc., Clearwater, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here for the Top TEN reasons you should have quick-change container handling parts for all your packaging machines! http://www.zepf.com/zepf/chngprts.htm -Original Message- From: Ibby El-Raheb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Active Directory Problem I have a small network: W2K Server SP2 with 2 NICs one for internal and one for cable modem that is shared. A bunch of WIN98 clients. Things have been running smooth for a while and all of a sudden none of the clients can be authenticated through the server. When I try to go into manage user accounts I get the following message: "Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online." Well ladies and gentlemen I am the so called system administrator and I have no clue what to do. Please help me. Thanks Ibby wannabe sys admin. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
