The problem may not necessarily be configuration related. Are there any
startup scripts? More specifically, are there any settings that
require/force the respective machines to connect to any specific network
hosts. I'm wondering if the problem may relate to the inconsistently
consistent 'hang' of a connection trying to be made, but never
succeeding...or possibly not succeeding in a timely fashion. It could be a
GPO, that hasn't changed but is having problems executing one of its
settings that requires some form of network connectivity. It could be as
simple as a seemingly benign app or config that's hanging at startup...
Doing a network trace/sniff of at least two computers experiencing the
problem should yield enough network hosts/servers in common to narrow down
your troubleshooting. When all else fails to yield the answer...sniff...
Hope this helps...
Eric Jones, Senior SE
Intel Server Group
(W) 336.424.3084
(M) 336.457.2591
www.vfc.com
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Good morning,
i've recently runned into a weird problem i wasn't able to track down yet.
Yesterday morning a number of users reported that their domain PCs would
hang loading the Operating system just before the logon screen would
appear.
they're all stuck on Applying computer settings.
The moment i unplug the network cable the PC will finish its startup
procedure and show the logon screen.
The network is made of a single forest/single domain, all DCs are Win2000
Server SP4. 4 sites across 2 Mb fast links (no evidence of traffic
overload). Each site has 2 Dcs including the one (and only) site where the
problem has been reported.
DCs seem to perform fine. They have been rebooted, checked event logs,
checked with netdiag and dcdiag. replication is working fine. None of the 2
DCs in the affected site hold FSMo roles. All other DCs on the network are
working fine.
There have been no modifications on group policies, memeberships so forth.
Sysvol and netlogon shares are accessible. One of the 2 DCs in the site is
the AD DNS server for the site and shows no problem (can resolve queries,
can register records, SRV records are present and appear correct).
on the client side: this has been reported on random machines attached to
different network hardware. They're a mix of WinXP and 2000 machines,
though
the problem seems to affect mainly win2000. EventID 3034 is logged (checked
most comments from eventid.net). client time looks synched with the DCs
time. Once the machine is started through the unplugging cable tweak it's
able to resolve from AD DNS. All network settings have been checked twice
both for server and client and appear correct. Hosts file is clean.
Attempted to remove one machine from the domain, and it would reboot fine.
however, it was a hard task to join it again to the domain (reported RPC
errors, network name no more valid...finally i could join it to the domain
but it started showing the issue again...). The issue has been reported on
15-20 domain machines out of about 200.
Please, please..help! I just can't get out of it (the problem...the
office).
thank you!
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