RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
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

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread John Aldrich
Sheesh! I am glad I've never really had to worry about NT domains. That being said, can you try to force synchronization between the PDC and the BDC? The only time I've seen an error of that phrasing is when we've rebooted one of our Windows 2003 DCs (actually do it several times per week, to

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
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

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
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

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron
Have you tried restarting the BDC? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: 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

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
Yes. Originally, I thought I just brought them up out of order, so shut both down. Fully booted the PDC, and then brought the BDC back up. On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Cameron wrote: Have you tried restarting the BDC? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
? -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

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
[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

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
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

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
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

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
I forced the domain to resync, and I see successful 5711 messages on both DCs, but still no luck. On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:39 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Sheesh! I am glad I've never really had to worry about NT domains. That being said, can you try to force synchronization between the PDC and

Re: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Eric Brouwer
- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles issue 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

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Joe Tinney
of a Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard system. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roaming profiles issue Where might one acquire nltest.exe if they don't have access to the NT Resource

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Joe Tinney
It is on the Windows 2003 Server CD in: \SUPPORT\TOOLS\SUPPORT.CAB\ Installing SUPTOOLS.MSI should get you there. -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles issue

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Webster
You have to install the support tools on 2003. Webster -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Subject: RE: Roaming profiles issue The document below suggests that it is available on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, but is unclear if it means on the hard

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
/ -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles issue Yeah--and the same thing doesn't work from the PDC, right? Also, from the BDC, can you connect