domain logon issue

[weinmatt]

Having a slighly different issue then thread865-296473, i do not know what samba is.

Have a domain set up. Have the PDC in one location, with three other locations with their own servers (bdcs). We have all the replication set up correctly, or so we think.

Intermitantly users can not login getting the error,

"Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found"

Any ideas what to do on the domain controller itself or on the xp workstation??

Unjoining and renaming the computer from the domain is a temporary fix.

 

[Spirit]

Just to clear up that you have set up each location as a site in AD Sites and Services and set up the subnets up correctly?

does each site have its own dns server?

When you say each site has a BDC you do mean that they have their own Domain Controller? And they have GC enabled on them?

In sites and services does have you allowed windows to configure the site link and replication links or have you set these manually.

Anything in the event logs on the PC / server that gives any clues?

Iain

 

[ArizonaGeek]

This is the same thing I am experiencing in my thread qid=1283455

I've tried and tried to troubleshoot but it seems random.

 

[ArizonaGeek]

Ok I think I might have figured this out. After many trial and errors I have determined that this error is probably due to a duplicate SID on the network. If you use Ghost to image a machine (which we are and it seemed only those machines having issues) it does not change the SID when you apply the image. I found some free software at

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NewSid.html

that will generate a new, random SID. If you do this for every machine Ghosted it should aleviate the problem.

Cheers
Rob