I've seen initial AD replication take as much as 24 hours, even over relatively stable and fast links.
Bring it up and pause it's netlogon service, and let it spin for a few days. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:30 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup Domain Controller causing problems??? > > > I am sorry about that. > > We are 100% 'Windows 2000 Server' - so yes - Active Directory. > > I know that Primary and Secondary sort of went away as far as > the terminology goes... But of course, in order to establish > the new Domain, I had to flag one server as the "New Forest" > - and then the server that I refer to as the "Backup Domain > Controller" - is simply an "Additional domain controller for > an existing domain". > > I truly thought that was the long and short of it - so if > there is addition functions to perform, would you be able to > point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:21 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup Domain Controller causing problems??? > > > I'm not clear on what your network is - W2K Active Directory, > native or mixed? In AD there is no such thing as a BDC, > they're all DCs. Is that what you built? Or is yours a BDC > left over from an NT4 domain? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:55 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Backup Domain Controller causing problems??? > > > Hello, > > Could someone please throw some ideas my way, as to why > having a Secondary Domain Controller active on the network, > could mess up authentication? > > If I have our BDC turned on and active on the network, and > our users attempt to fire up their Outlook from the outside > (using Exchange RPC Server published through our ISA Server), > they are unable to authenticate. However, if I turn off our > BDC, then they can authenticate just fine. This is also the > case from time to time, when workstations are initially > turned on, and perform their initial login into the Domain. > > It's almost as if the BDC, is responding first to the > authentication requests, and doesn't have a current copy of > all the user/password information. I say that, because by > turning off the BDC, everything works fine once again. > > This may be my ignorance - regarding how Domain Controllers > differ from NT4.0 versus Windows 2000 networks. It's my > understanding that a Backup Domain Controller - simply makes > a copy of all items in Active Directory > - users, computers, passwords, etc. and then responds to > requests if the Primary Domain Controller doesn't respond in > a timely manner. Is there anything else, other than using > the setup wizard, and joining the Forest, that I need to do > in order to properly set up a Backup Domain Controller? I > would think, that going through the setup wizard, and simply > letting it run on the network, was all there was to it. > > Am I missing something here? Do I need to initiate some kind > of replication process, or synchronization in order to get > the BDC current with it's information? (provided that this is > even the problem?) > > If anyone could offer *anything* regarding this subject, I > would be grateful, as I see it to be very important to have > our BDC operational in case our PDC ever dies. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
