RE: [ActiveDir] W2K not authenticated by NT4 BDC when DC is down.

[Charlie Kaiser]

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Check DNS to see if the SRV records for the BDC are available; also verify that the BDC is properly registered in WINS if you have WINS running. Sounds like only the W2K DC is registered in DNS maybe? You should be able to do a NSLOOKUP on the domain name and resolve all the DCs...   ********************** Charlie Kaiser MCSE, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 985 0975 x5083 ********************** -----Original Message----- From: Niklas Wikander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [ActiveDir] W2K not authenticated by NT4 BDC when DC is down. Hunter, That was a good article but didn't help me in my case. My problem is that the computer account is missing in server manager when the DC is down, and therefore the W2kclient cannot login.   Thanks anyway -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fr�n: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: fr 2004-02-13 19:28 Till: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Kopia: �mne: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K not authenticated by NT4 BDC when DC is down. Niklas- See if this helps: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;298713 Hunter -----Original Message----- From: Niklas Wikander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] W2K not authenticated by NT4 BDC when DC is down. I'm preparing an upgrade of a NT domain to a W2k domain. The scenario: I have one NT PDC and one NT BDC in my domain TEST. In the TEST domain I have one W2kclient. Everything works great. I upgrade the PDC to W2k DC and with the upgrade I also install DNS on the DC and name the domain TEST.LOCAL Everything works great and I can login to TEST.LOCAL with the W2kclient. But, When the DC is down and only the old NT BDC is up, I cannot login to the domain. I get the classic error: The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is incorecct. When I look in the event viewer the synchronization works between the DC and the BDC. With both DC and BDC I can see the W2kclient computer account in server manager. But with the DC down I only see the two servers in server manager. Why is the account missing when the DC is down? Probably I have missed something in the upgrade process but I cannot figure out what. I have tried this twice now with the same result. Any suggestions? List info   : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ    : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info   : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ    : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/