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Help with Client Computers

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Maverick07

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Okay, I had one of my servers crash, so I had to load the backup onto my second server (Windows 2000). My DNS was also ran on the server that crashed so I'm pointing everyone to another DNS server that we can use. Everyone is mapped to the new drives containing the first servers files.

Clients are using XP and 2000. Some have roaming profiles and others do not. I have two users on two machines and I can not get them to log onto the network properly. For user A (XP), when logging in they get a message saying that the computer can not locate the profile on the server. I have checked the path in the Active Directory and it's fine. If you scroll down, there is more information saying detail and a compromised security issue. So if you press ok, they log on with the local cached profile. I then try and map a network drive, but the computer just sits there and then a minute later (about) I am presented with a logon box. If I put in User A's log in information, I get a message saying the computer already tried that. I can not even use the administrator log in information. I get an error message with that too. What's going on here?

I do have an error in my Event Viewer on the server:
No Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller is available for domain XXXXXX. The following error occurred:
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.

Now the second user can log in just fine, profile loads (takes forever though), but has the same problem as User A when mapping the drives.

Any ideas or things I should check? I'm at a loss here. The other users in the building with roaming profiles, their profiles are taking forever to load and I have cleared the temp internet files for them.

Thanks,
Lance
 
Since you mention roaming profiles, I assume you had an AD w/ DNS.

When you "load the backup"...does that mean you took your second server, and restored a full backup of your first server?

And you had only the single DC, correct?

Where's your DC right now? Do you even have one up?
 
No, I only moved the critical files needed for every day use by the employees to the second server. The first server (one that went down) was a file server and ran DNS.
 
Still a bit confused...you have many (> 2) servers on your network, including AD, DNS, file serving.
Your primary DNS server ("A") crashed and burned. (it was also a file server)
Backup DNS server is up/running, clients have been repointed. Was this DNS server up before the crash? or was this brought up afterwards?

I'm guessing that your DNS is hosed up, perhaps because your DC(s?) are still pointing to the crashed DNS server. This would cause them to register with a DNS server that's down, so the new DNS server doesn't even know the DC exists.

How am I doing? 😉

 
Originally posted by: Woodie
Still a bit confused...you have many (> 2) servers on your network, including AD, DNS, file serving.
Your primary DNS server ("A") crashed and burned. (it was also a file server)
Backup DNS server is up/running, clients have been repointed. Was this DNS server up before the crash? or was this brought up afterwards?

I'm guessing that your DNS is hosed up, perhaps because your DC(s?) are still pointing to the crashed DNS server. This would cause them to register with a DNS server that's down, so the new DNS server doesn't even know the DC exists.

How am I doing? 😉
Click to expand...

If you only had one DC and it is currently offline, you have no AD. This would obviously answer your question as to why nothing seems to work.
If that other server was an actual DC, do you know whether or not the Global Catalog was replicating to it?
 
Okay I have two servers (three if you include the web server box, but all it runs is the web server). I have two DCs on my network, Piedmont1 and Trust1. Piedmont1 is also the server that went down. So now I'm left with Trust1 (2nd server). I'm using a DNS server (the primary, the secondary points to Trust) that's at a local institution, as we have access to that server. Trust1 is the server we use for AD. Piedmont1 just ran the printers and had several files on it for the employees to use. And I do not know if the Global Catalog was replicating to it.

I apologize for lack of details, I just took over the System Admin job and the previous guy made a mess out of the network/servers. So I need to change my domain controllers so they point to the new DNS server that I am having my users use? Or?

Thanks,
Lance
 
Primary DNS server is external now, and T is your only DC at this point.
Is T running DNS? I assume that T is now running Global Catalog (GC) as well now?
What is T configured to use for DNS? (It should have the external DNS server primary)
And clients are configured to use External DNS primary, and secondary = ??
(Still assuming that P is down for the count. Is there a chance it will come up, with data in the future?, or is it dead-dead?)
 
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