Clients not registering with DNS

[egolds]

I have just updated my 4.0 PDC to 2000 everything seems to be working fine (WHEWW!!) except one small issue. I have the DNS/DHCP/Primary domain controller on one machine and all clients are 2K clients. None of them are registering themselves with DNS. I have a single AD integrated domain and "Allow Dynamic Updates" is set to Yes. Clients "Register this connection with DNS" is checked. DHCP "Automatically update DHCP client information in DNS" is checked. I have restarted each of the services after double checking these settings.

Is there anything I am missing to get the clients to register themselves?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MattWray]

Have you run IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS from the clients? Though that may be tedious due to the number of clients... Thanks,

Matt Wray

 

[GlenJohnson]

Go to one of the machines and try ipconfig /all. See what comes up. Also try and ping the server. I'm betting it's something simple. Good luck. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
John Burroughs (1837 - 1921); US author, naturalist.

 

[hads]

Go to the properties of the scope in the DHCP mmc and in the DNS tab check that the 'Always Update' radio button is selected.

Hope this helps

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[egolds]

I have checked all of the above to no avail. Here is what I have found. One of the machines did register itself, I'm not sure why it's possible the DHCP lease expired since I did the migration 3 days ago. On another machine if I changed the domain from the pre-2000 domain of "CORPDOM" to the 2000 domain of company.local it registered itself. Is there a way to centrally change all the machines from the pre-2000 domain to the 2000 domain or do I need to go to each workstation?

 

[GlenJohnson]

I don't know, but I'd install tightvnc if you have to visit each one. It's a free download and I run it on 250 workstations. If a user calls up and needs help, this remote admin tool saves me a ton of walking. Check into it. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
John Burroughs (1837 - 1921); US author, naturalist.