[windows2000] Re: Dead/dying server (maybe)
- From: Neil Bullock <n.bullock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:46:31 +0000 (GMT)
Hi,
This will probably be something we do eventually. It's just a case of finding
a time to do it, and that won't be easy given the amount of stuff the server
does (far too much for a domain controller if you ask me, which nobody did.)
Neil.
----Original Message----
From: douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 23-Nov-2004 15:24:11
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subj: [windows2000] Re: Dead/dying server (maybe)
I would demote it and then reinstall W2k from scratch.
After that you could decide what role it would play.
Douglas Jensen
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Voice (952) 402-9821
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Network Administrator
Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc.
712 Canterbury Road
Shakopee, MN 55379
www.capagency.org
-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Bullock
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:50 AM
To: Windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Dead/dying server (maybe)
Hi,
Seem to have a slight problem with a Win2k domain controller. I'm
hoping someone can shed some light on it.
This is a server which was upgraded from NT4 (I had no say in the
matter, unfortunately).
It's a domain controller, but holds none of the FSMO roles, and isn't a
global catalog. It's part of a domain which has just one other domain
controller.
Up until a few days ago, it kept restarting for no obvious reason. The
only way we'd know about it would be that when we went to use terminal
services on it, it popped up a loading your personal settings box.
There were no bugcheck errors in the event log, so I don't believe it
was any kind of stop error. There were, however, logs stating that the
previous system shutdown at whatever time was unexpected, so that points
to a sudden loss of power, or something. We suspected various things
(UPS, which we swapped with another to no avail) and various
applications/services, which we tried stopping (Apache, IIS, some Sybase
thing).
Anyway, it seems to have stopped playing that game in the last few days.
Instead, now it just slows to a crawl. Task manager claims System Idle
Process is using 7% CPU, and nothing else is using any, so we appear to
be missing 93% somewhere (this happened on my home server once and it
was a dodgy and extremely hot processor).
Also recently, it's sometimes started taking people upwards of 3 minutes
to log on to the network. Just now, I tracked this down to the problem
server.
When people are logged on by it, and attempt to download the default
domain profile, it takes forever. I removed the profile, and it drops
to 13 seconds for a log on. This never happened when the other domain
controller happened to log a user on - it was always quick.
I'm pondering doing a Win2k repair from the CD or something, and failing
that, starting to think about demoting it to a member server to see what
happens.
I don't really suspect anything any more. I'm just confused now.
Neil.
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