[THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen

  • From: "Luchette, Jon" <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:10:02 -0500

It seems like once I rejoin, everything is ok?  I just don't why this would
happen in the first place?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob [mailto:bobmails@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:08 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen


once you disjoin/rejoin... does everything function correctly or do
you still have problems connecting to directory services?

if you are still having problems... check this out:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810207

It may be IPsec filters

g'luck
Bob



On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:28:40 -0500, Luchette, Jon
<JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good questions, here are some answers:
> 
> 1)yes, I did try to join the domain using the Netbios name, it failed and
> said the domain could not be contacted.
> 2)i did not test WINS and DNS lookups. how would I do this specifically?
> 3)I am able to ping all servers by name before dis/rejoining the domain
> without problem.
> 4)Yes, the computer accounts are there before I dis/rejoin.  I delete them
> after I disjoin, so that they get recreated when I rejoin.
> 
> Does this tell us something?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Riggins [mailto:roger.riggins@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
> 
> I read it as:
> "to AD 2k3 native mode with only 2 DCs"
> "from AD 2000 in mixed mode with 3 NT 4 BDCs and 2 AD 2000 DCs"
> 
> Did you try joining the domain using the NetBIOS name instead of the
> FQDN? How's name resolution working? Did you test WINS and DNS lookups?
> Did you try pinging a server with both methods from the laptop before
> you dis/rejoined the domain? Were you able to find computer accounts in
> AD for the laptops before you dis/rejoined?
> 
> Good luck,
> R
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ron Oglesby
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
> 
> Uh:  this confuses me "We just recently upgraded our domain to AD 2k3
> native mode with only 2 DCs from AD 2000 in mixed mode with 3 NT 4 BDCs
> and 2 AD 2000 DCs"
> 
> Does this mean you changed the mode to native 2003 AND you still have NT
> 4 BDCs and 2000 DCs running?
> 
> Not good.
> 
> Ron Oglesby
> Senior Technical Architect
> Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
> 
> RapidApp, Chicago
> Office 312.372.7188
> Mobile 815.325.7618
> email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luchette, Jon [mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:14 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
> 
> Here is a good one.  We just recently upgraded our domain to AD 2k3
> native
> mode with only 2 DCs from AD 2000 in mixed mode with 3 NT 4 BDCs and 2
> AD
> 2000 DCs.  We have about 1200 client machines running mostly XP and 2k
> some
> 9.x machines but not many, Dell and HP mostly.  I don't know if it is
> related to the domain upgrade but since then we have had 3 Dell Laptops
> running win 2k have this very strange problem.  One at a time we'll get
> calls where they say that their network drives aren't mapping during
> logon,
> and when we go to look at their machine we try to logon and we get "The
> domain is not available."  It seems that in the network configuration
> it'll
> have the Netbios name of the domain listed on these machines so what we
> do
> to fix it is, remove the machine from the domain, and then readd it
> using
> the FQDN of the domain.  This seems to allow us to atleast logon to the
> domain successfully.  Anyone ever seen anything like this happen before,
> or
> have any ideas if this might be related to the domain upgrade we just
> did?
> Maybe it is due to the fact that we used to have 5 DCs and now we only
> have
> 2?  But 2 should be good for 1200 clients don't you think?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /jL
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