WINS used to run on the old NT 4 BDCs but those are gone now, now it is run on the 2k3 DCs. Is there anything that I could check in WINS specifically? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Greenberg [mailto:steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:30 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen Did you use WINS before, and, is it still active on the network with the new domain? We have not that precise issue, but similar ones related to how names are found in AD with DNS versus WINS from older machines... Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 (602) 296-0411 fax steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luchette, Jon Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:14 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 ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor SeamlessPlanet.com Domain Names Register your .com domain name for as low as $7.85 One of the lowest prices on the web! Part of The Kenzig Group. http://www.seamlessplanet.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Awesome SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor SeamlessPlanet.com Domain Names Register your .com domain name for as low as $7.85 One of the lowest prices on the web! Part of The Kenzig Group. http://www.seamlessplanet.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Awesome SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor SeamlessPlanet.com Domain Names Register your .com domain name for as low as $7.85 One of the lowest prices on the web! Part of The Kenzig Group. http://www.seamlessplanet.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Awesome SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm