RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Login script problems

[Joe]

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A lot of issues in W2K come down to DNS. Logon scripts are pretty easy to troubleshoot though if you look at network traces as you will see the request to get the logon script right in the trace and whether or not the issue is name resolution or something else.   The most fun issue I have see with logon scripts is a site that is configured for DNS and WINS and the way the DC's are configured they are not all in WINS (involved hub and spoke multi-tier WINS environment) and in a disjoint dns name space so when a DC is found through DNS and then the logon process says to bring down logon script xyz the client gets the FQDN of the machine with the script but for some reason it chops the dns name off and just tries to resolve the host name through WINS and can't so the logon script doesn't come down. Have also seen this when companies try to mix to separate networks while in a consolidation process and they point at WINS for one network and DNS for another and use the domain and logon process of where they are using the DNS and the WINS is just to find old resources. Completely blows the logon script process.   Again, simplest to get a network trace and see the exact failure than to try and fix this and then that and then that to see what fixes it overall. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond McClinnis Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Login script problems I found that in our AD environment that a lot of “weird” problems like this have to do with DNS or name resolution of some kind       Thanks,   Raymond McClinnis Network Administrator Provident Credit Union       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Login script problems   Could be lots of things the fastest way to chase it down is to put the client on a shared hub with another pc with some network tracing software and watch the logon process.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Login script problems Right now when I log into the computer I get the script I wrote about 40% of the time.  I added it to a different user as well and he never got it.  I also copied the script to all the DC's just in case.  Any ideas? Thanks Ryan