RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC

[Za Vue]

Forgot to mention that the server is an IBM X-345. If any of you have ever experienced this issue.   -Za From: Za Vue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:57 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC NO IP conflict, all TCPIP applications work fine. These few different make and model workstations connect fine to the other AD servers. No problem with DNS or replication.   Za Vue-MCSE Emory University From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cass Gowins Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC You don't have a duplicate IP Address?   Cass M. Gowins / Network Manager Stark/Portage Area Computer Consortium 2100 38th St. N.W. Canton, Ohio  44709 cell (330) 705-9162 office (330) 492-8136  x-391 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Boza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] XP can't see PDC 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