And why do you re-boot your DC every weekend? SJ
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, after looking at the events on the other DC, it would *appear* that > the DC did not completely restart like it was supposed to after it's > regularly scheduled reboot over the weekend. :-( There were numerous errors > about being unable to sync the domain controllers, DFSR, etc. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:23 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Win 2003 R2 strangeness > > Events on the other(s) DCs? > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 8:17 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Win 2003 R2 strangeness > > This morning, one of my users (Windows Vista user, FWIW) called and said > she > couldn't get online. I checked and sure enough, she didn't have an IP > address. I finally figured out that our DC which handles the DHCP leases, > one DNS, etc was locked up. I couldn't even get a picture on the monitor. > When I rebooted the machine and logged in I noticed that it stopped logging > anything around 8:15 this morning, but there were no messages in the event > log from around 8:15 until the system came back up after I power-cycled it > this morning around 8:45, however, there were some interesting messages > *after* the system came back up that I chalked up to just having recovered > from a power-cycle event. > > Any ideas where to look for the problem? Unfortunately, we let maintenance > lapse on the server. It's a Dell Poweredge 2900, if that matters any. > > > > > > ~ 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 > > > > ~ 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 > -- Stefan Jafs ~ 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
