Are the subnets for the ad sites defined and in ad and that the DC object is assigned to the correct site instead of the default first site?
Z On Jul 24, 2014 12:18 PM, "J- P" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
