RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC

[Rick Boza]

Or a flaky blade in a router.  I've seen a bad router blade cause funny network issues "some of the time" more than a few times.   I know the reboot of the box makes the server look like the culprit but you never know.   have you looked at a packet trace? What does that show? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Khan, Salman Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC I have experienced similar situation where couple of xp clients just couldn't connect to the server on times. Norton AV turned out to be a culprit in my situation. The xp machines were running a very old copy of Norton Anti Virus. I removed the Norton and installed the latest version of Mcafee and machines never had a problem again.    I also wouldn't rule out a possible bad NIC on the boxes.  Hope this helps.   Thanks, Sal  -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Za Vue Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC   I have a server that is assigned all the W2K AD roles, RID, Infrast.,PDC, GC, etc. It also houses 90% of the user data. Some Windows XP machines cannot access the shares from time to time. You can't event ping the server when this happens. It does not happen all the time.  The other 2 servers in AD never have the problem. A reboot of the server normally fixes the problem. Not a lot of activities in the log files, nothing out of the ordinary.   Thanks in advance for any thought/solution.   Thank you, Za