Windows 2000 logon.bat issues

[banorton]

Ok guys, hope someone out there has an answer... I just took over a network about a month ago and it is a mess. We had discovered a virus, and from discovering the virus we found out that the automatic update feature of our norton antivirus wasn't working. After mopping up the virus, we had to re-install norton and liveupdate on out server (Win 2000). After rebooting the server norton is running and live update is working, but... Now all of my win 98 clients give this error when logging into the network: "No domain server was available to validate your password, you may not be able to gain access to some network resources." Now none of my win 98 clients can gain access to mapped server drives or print through the server. Once I manually run the logon.bat script off of the server from the client pc's everything works ok except some of the 98 pc's will not print. After reinstalling the drivers for the network printers some of the 98 machines will not print. Any ideas guys??

Thanks,

Joe Kougias

 

[GlenJohnson]

Have you checked for errors or event logs on the server? Can anything after 98, (w2k pro machines and after) get on ok?

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[banorton]

My XP home and my XP pro machines are running tip top. I have a few outside offices with XP xlients using terminal services to get in and they are having no trouble, it seems to be only 98 clients. And I know something is failing to load when my 2k server reboots, it says to check the log, when i look at the log, there are no entries at all, I know they are there, on top of the screen it says there are some 1,500 entries, but when I try to view them it is blank.

Any ideas

Joe Kougias
Lincolnwood, IL

 

[Zelandakh]

yup - known issue with corrupt event logs often caused by a virus.

Stop the event log and set to manual.
Restart.
Bin the .evt files.
Restart.
Set event log to auto and start.

It wipes the old entries but will show future ones.

Win98 issue could be caused by a lot of things - are you running active directory?

 

[banorton]

Yes active directory is used

Joe

 

[Zelandakh]

ok - have you changed anything in the DHCP scope options as they may not be able to resolve the addresses.

Check both DNS and WINS settings in DHCP.

 

[banorton]

We aren't using DHCP. Every client has it's own inside ip, and only a few use the internet.