Are both DCs DNS servers and the clients pointing to both for resolution? Are your clients XP, take alook to see if this applies?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939252 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Dave Vantine <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Michael B. Smith > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Are both GCs? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Michael B. Smith >> >> Consultant and Exchange MVP >> >> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> >> >> >> >> *From:* Dave Vantine [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:51 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Domain Logon issues when a DC is down >> >> >> >> I have 2 DC's and on occasions when one goes off line for patching or some >> issue certain users are not able to logon to the domain and the messages >> indicate that there is no DC available. What it appears is that certain >> client machines are communicating with DC1 while other connect with DC2. I >> can actually reproduce this by running SET on a client machine to see which >> LOGONSERVER the machine is using then log out of the domain. If I shutdown >> that particular DC and then try to logon I will get the message that no >> logon servers available. >> >> >> >> I have run dcdiag and netdiag and there are no problems shown. I thought >> that the clients were suppose to be able to find all of the DC's available >> for logon purposes via the DNS srv records. As far as I know this has worked >> this way from the very begining of our Domain setup. I am having some issues >> with one of the DC's of late and may need to replace it so I would like to >> get this resolved. >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Dave Vantine >> >> ~ 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 >> >> ~ 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 >> > > > > -- > Thanks > Dave Vantine > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
