My guess is that BIND isn't taking the update for the GC and that's why its not working.
Check to make sure that its either accepting updates or you can manually add the record ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Bud DAWSON [mailto:ifd@;mda.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:35 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Can't relocatge the Global Catalog Server service > > > Hello all > > I am trying to switch the Global Catalog server role from one > DC to another, > but when I do, nobody can see the new GC, so they cannot > login, and I had to > switch it back again right away. > > Our DNS runs on Unix (Bind 8.2) and name resolution has > always worked well. > > The current GC server has a bad disk, and I am going to have > to shut it down > for some time to ghost the data to a new disk, replace the > disk, ghost it > back etc. so the GC service will not be available for some time. I am > pre-testing the configuration before I actually shut it down, > to make sure > everything will still keep working. > > I'm wondering if I create a second GC server (in the same > site) and let them > both run at the same time for a while. If I do, is there any > way I can tell > which GC server is being accessed during login ? > > Has anybody seen this problem before ? Is it a DNS error ? > (Of course, the > UNIX guys wont let me near their DNS zone files !!) > > Cheers > > Bud Dawson > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
