RE: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-11-30 Thread David Adner
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: [

RE: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-11-30 Thread David Cliffe
Hi Kamlesh, I'm not necessarily recommending this as a fix, but wondering if you've seen it yet and if would apply? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831201/en-us -DaveC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-01 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
on PDCe I am looking at sessions and open files in fsmgmt.msc, which lists down the client machines with IP, then I am verifying the site of each connecting IP using ATSN.exe from joeware. Also, our network team had complained that network link is getting choked, and as a proof gave list of sourc

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-01 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
I checked the file version of dfssvc.exe and dfs.sys on my site DCs, they are higher than the one mentioned in the KB article. So point in looking at that fix. -- Kamlesh On 12/1/06, David Cliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Kamlesh, I'm not necessarily recommending this as a fix, but

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-01 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Appreciate the efforts taken. AFAIK, this would be more of a DFS issue then authentication, as clients are pulling policies and files from PDCe. When I look into details of DFS link targets for sysvol or netlogon, PDCe is listed as distance 9th in the list of servers which clients should contact

RE: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-01 Thread David Cliffe
__ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:29 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC I checked the file versi

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-01 Thread Al Mulnick
How are your clients connected? Site definitions? On 12/1/06, Kamlesh Parmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Appreciate the efforts taken. AFAIK, this would be more of a DFS issue then authentication, as clients are pulling policies and files from PDCe. When I look into details of DFS link targets

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-02 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
e to modify the registry on each applicable DC). I wonder if that would help in your case? -DaveC -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Kamlesh Parmar *Sent:* Friday, December 01, 2006 12:29 PM *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org *Sub

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-02 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Am sorry, I didn't follow what you are asking.. could you be more specific. On 12/2/06, Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How are your clients connected? Site definitions? On 12/1/06, Kamlesh Parmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Appreciate the efforts taken. > > AFAIK, this would be more

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-02 Thread Al Mulnick
Site definitions - are your site definitions up to date? How are your clients connected - Are they ethernet, 802.11x, tokenring, ?? On 12/2/06, Kamlesh Parmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am sorry, I didn't follow what you are asking.. could you be more specific. On 12/2/06, Al Mulnick <[EMA

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-02 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Yes checked the correct subnets are attached to correct sites. All clients are connected via Ethernet 100/Full Duplex. Its like mass exodus of swarm of computers, going to PDCe, and in turn choking the WAN links. It happened like once a day.. and everyday it would be random site. Have asked dif

RE: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-02 Thread joe
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamlesh Parmar Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:55 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC Yes checked the correct subnets are attached to correct sites. All clients are connected via Ethernet 100/Full Duplex. Its like

Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of client going to PDC

2006-12-03 Thread Matt Hargraves
ctive Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Kamlesh Parmar *Sent:* Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:55 PM *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] Bulk of