I've seen that happen once or twice before after dcpromo, even after full initial replication and a reboot. It supports my theory that the first course of action to certain AD issues is to go have a pint and then see if the problem persists.
Anything turn up in the event log? Is this DC the only one in its site? --Steve On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Weird….now we’re in – we’re guessing replication? Three of us looking at > this thing, none of us changed anything, it just started working. > > > > The fix? Wait it out, about 30 mins… > > > > Dave > > > > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:53 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Weird DC issue > > > > Use the IP address to RDP into it? > > > > You're not exactly clear when you say "can't login via RDP" although you > provide some clues that it is able to authenticate you for accessing other > ways... > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:43 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2003. ESX VM if that matters. We could RDP to it fine until the DNS flip. > > > > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:34 PM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Weird DC issue > > > > OS? If WS2008 did you allow RDP in the firewall? > John W. Cook > Systems Administrator > Partnership for Strong Families > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 03:32 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> > Subject: Weird DC issue > > > We have a DC we rebuilt – ripped the old one out (it died) via NTDSUTIL, > ADSIEdit, etc. Got the new one (same name and IP) DCPROMO’d, DCDIAG looks > good, last thing we do is set DNS to point to itself and then a final > reboot. Dcdiag, etc all looked good. > > > > Now we can’t log in via RDP. We *can* MMC to it and see services, event > logs, shares, and UNC to c$, admin$ so we’re authenticating somehow. Ideas > anyone? > > David Lum > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
