A link to Webster's "10 things in AD" presentation should solve this, I would think
Despatched via Blackberry. Mock if you will, but it gets my email without a fuss. -----Original Message----- From: "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:23:25 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Polling wrong DC Almost certainly because AD Sites and associated subnets are not properly configured. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:18 PM To: NT Subject: [NTSysADM] Polling wrong DC Hi all, Quick background - we have 5 remote locations all tunneled to HQ in "star" topology if you will; HQ- 192.168.0.0 site1- 10.0.0.0 site2- 10.0.1.0 site3- 10.0.2.0 site4- 10.0.3.0 site5- 10.0.4.0 I'm trying join a server from site 2 (10.0.0.0) to our domain site 1 (192.168.0.0) , the issue that I'm having is that the server is trying to authenticate against the DC in site 5. Since there is no tunnel between the remote sites it fails, what I'm failing to understand is WHY it isn't trying to authenticate against the DC's at HQ- The server in the remote site has the HQ DNS servers as primary and secondary Ping back and forth via both IP and Name work and the TTL is only under 300ms I have flushed DNS Registered DNS rebooted Even when i ping the domain name it come back with the correct DC, yet when i try to join it back to the domain i get the "no domain controllers could be contacted" and Netmon traces cleary show it's looking for the wrong DC
