Recent content by wheelandcog

thanks fer the ipconfigs... i see that you have three interfaces in the server. Until you finish trouble shooting disable all of them ( in device manager) except the one with the .10 address, check your manually created dns record for this server points to .10 remove any dns entries to do...

whats was the reuslt of nbtstat -c a big list of names?

have a look at yer eventlog master browser type errors .. you'll want browstat fromn the 2k resources tool kit type nbtstat -c in a command prompt on a client pc that can log on to the domain do the client pcs have a problem logging on to the domain?

check the dns server ip address in your servers lan settings.. sounds like dns is ok on yer client pc but the local connections dns settings are incorrect on the dc itself

just to be sure cos i wasnt as clear as i could be last time.. try disabling the adapter in device manger when this was happenig to me this is what worked...

ruin nsllokup type the fqdn of your 1st dc and then the 2nd dc in the nslookup console if both times you get good results returned .. then your dns is fine It Still sounds like a dns error to me

try disabling the adapter

I'm sure theres a way , I'll let you know what happens

type nslookup at a command prompt if it says defualt servers unknown then yer dns is wrong it sounds a lot like a dns problem

Install another network card into your machine and wrap AD around that one

its rather good fun, I'm currently running two ad forests , suse enterprise netware 4 and 6 groupwise and assorted 2k servers and various clients..... one word of warning, i stuffed up on the networking config first time round and one of the vm 2k3servers managed to assign dhcp address's to...

Hi, Can i get a standalone 2k server (no domain or AD) to trust users from my 2k3 AD Domain, without joining it to the domain ? Background... i got a third party box I'm not allowd to make "major Changes too" whatever that means.. I'd like to make ad-domain\users part of the...

thanks for the encouragement

dunno if this helps... we allow our users a differennt mailbox password to their login password if they want.. those that have the same password only have it to use it once,

thanks for the responses... it turns out it was the tray settings on the posh xerox printer, they where set to expect us letter size whereas mugginbs here as of course changing them clients to a4....