RE: [exchangelist] DSAccess can't find domain controllerProblem sorted by running /domainprep. Happy days are here again.... Thanks to all that replied. cheers George ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Toews To: [ExchangeList] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: [exchangelist] RE: DSAccess can't find domain controller http://www.MSExchange.org/ What are the first errors in the event viewer? Have you tried running dcdiag to see if it comes up with any severe errors? Just a thought. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Abela [mailto:robert@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:18 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: DSAccess can't find domain controller http://www.MSExchange.org/ It looks like a dns problem. Domain prep basically is just adding some usergroups to the active directory of exchanfge. -----Original Message----- From: Lorie Gordon [mailto:lgordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:12 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: DSAccess can't find domain controller http://www.MSExchange.org/ Have you tried running domainprep? -----Original Message----- From: George Duncanson [mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:47 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] DSAccess can't find domain controller http://www.MSExchange.org/ I'd be extremely grateful for any thoughts on the following. Setup: win 2k sp2 Ex 2000 sp3 (was SP2 at the time of the grief. Hoped SP3 would solve the problem. no chance!) Grief : Numerous error messages in system and application logs but they all seem to stem from DSAccess being unable to find a domain controller. I get event ID 2102 "All Domain controllers in use are not responding" I also get: DSAccess will use the servers from the following list Domain Controllers: Global Catalog Servers: The configuration controller is set to <none> When I try to force DSAcccess to use a DC as a configuration controller, with the registry, I'm told it can't be found in the Sites container.(It's there!) Manually starting the Sytem attendent gives me "no errors but can't start" This leads on to Metabase failures (ID 1002 and 1004), Unknown Errors in exchange system (1005) etc. The system log shows that it starts the IFS but can't find the paths to the m: drive which is not surprising as the store and attendent don't start. Ending with two fatal errors creating SSL credentials (ID 36871) One of the three DC's was renamed a few weeks ago but all was working perfectly until I went on holiday last week! 24 hours after I left I'm told that things just stopped working for no good reason.......... All else seems fine. AD replication, DNS etc. I've looked at numerous KB aricles and checked permissions and DNS etc to no avail. Obviously my exchange server has lost sight of my DC's (how?) and perhaps this is a win2000 problem but all else seems to be fine? Is reinstalling with /domainprep the best solution here? Am I missing something simple? Grateful for any help. My users are getting antsy without their mail (and not happy that I went on holiday!) Many thanks George ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: lgordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: robert@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: jasont@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This mail was content checked for malicious code and viruses by GFI MailSecurity. GFI MailSecurity provides email content checking, exploit detection and anti-virus for Exchange & SMTP servers. Spam, viruses, dangerous attachments and offensive content are removed automatically. Key features include: Multiple virus engines; Email content & attachment checking; Exploit shield - email intrusion detection & defence; Email threats engine - analyses & defuses HTML scripts, .exe files & more. In addition to GFI MailSecurity, GFI also produces the GFI FAXmaker fax server & GFI LANguard network security product ranges. For more information on our products, please visit http://www.gfi.com. This disclaimer was sent by GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------