You can't logon with out a GC. So when DC1 goes away so will your
ability to logon. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q216970 for
more.
al
> EN wrote:
>
> I have 2 AD DCs, and when the first created DC of the domain fails,
> the 2nd DC doesn't accept logons.
> I'm running mixed mode the GC only being on the first DC shouldn't
> matter right? Has anyone else
> encounted this type of problem? When I promoted the 2nd server to a
> DC, everything went smoothly,
> sysvol and netlogon shares were created properly.
>
> Each DC has a DNS server as well, with the 1st DC having an AD
> Integrated DNS, while the 2nd has a Primary DNS, and yet another stand
> alone has a secondary dns. All the dns records "seem" right, in that
> the svr records are showing up in each DNS server.
>
> Any ideas on what too look for to maybe solve this problem?
>
> thanks
>
> Ernesto
>
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