You can have several Global Catalog Servers. Access to a GC Server is necessary to log on in a Windows 2000 domain and that may have changed with 2003. If you are at a remote location and the connection to the GC goes down, you can not log on even if there is a DC at your remote location and it knows about you. Again, I think they fixed that with 2003 but that is the way it is with 2000. Douglas Jensen Douglas.Jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice (952) 402-9821 Fax (952) 402-9815 Network Administrator Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc. 712 Canterbury Road Shakopee, MN 55379 www.capagency.org -----Original Message----- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:20 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: windows 03 dc's drop connections to other dc I'm not that ad-savvy, but are you really supposed to have more than one GC in a domain? Unless something has been changed with the 2k3 server release? Also, the DCs apparentely require the dhcp-client service (as I found out recently - I like to turn off services I don't need on the DCs...) to be auto-started in order to update the DNS-records and let the other DCs know they are up and running. My five öre. --Original Message Text--- From: joe haines Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:36:13 -0400 windows 03 dc's drop connections to other dc hello, We have a 2k03 network that consists of: one domain with one site we have 2 physical locations connected via 3 mb wan connection. A dc at each location that functions as a global catalog , dns and dhcp. We are currently experiencing sporadic dropped connections between the dc's in each location. (cant ping other dc ..let alone replicate). We can ping other member servers and client machines from the dc's. It just seems that dcs stop communicating. A reboot of each dc seems to resolve each issue temporarily. Any ideas would be appreciated. BW, Sorin > Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmfak.uu.se/organisk/ > Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> 3 signals >> GSM > Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 > Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 > SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b > > Public PGP key available on request. > > () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail /\ > > Harmless tagline follows: > > Legacy MS Tag: The best way to accelerate Windows is at escape velocity. ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm