Guest christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Hi all. I am having a few technical difficulties concerning our Primary Domain Controller at logon. Our network is currently set up with 2 domain controllers one which has the DHCP and the DNS configured on it. The second domain controller only has the DNS configured on it. Where I work is a school so we have GPO set up to redirect the desktop folder and the programs menu to a location on the server. The desktop and programs gets redirected to the primary domain controller which has the DNS and the DHCP configured on it. This works most of the time and re-directs the folders to the server but sometimes it does fail and redirect it and then when you refresh the desktop the desktop and the programs menu drops out. However in two of the rooms it is the worst where it always fails. However when I redirect the foldrers to a location on the second domain controller it works absolutely fine without ever failing. When you log onto a computer within the two rooms that had the worst problem it comes up with a balloon message the says currently working offline with the name of the primary domain controller. When you go on to start then run and then type in \\servername which is the server name of the primary domain controller it should have about 6 shares appear. However only 1 of them appear but when you try and get into it, it comes up saying access denied. However when you type in to the run command \\ip address which is the ip address to the primary domain controller all the shares appear and works fine. However I can ping the primary domain controller by name and IP address without it losing any packets. When I look at the registry I find a registry key called LogonServer which has the name of the domain controller. I did try and change the registry key so it pointed to the second domain controller but whenever I log back in again it changes the registry key back to the primary domain controller. Is there away that I can force that computer alone to log on to the secondary domain controller and stop it from logging onto the primary domain controller without having to change any settings on the actual domain controller itself. Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated. Thank you
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Primary Domain Controller Problems Hello, this is the downside of redirected folder, if not available, it empty the desktop & co. You are speaking about primary & secondary, but your are in Active Directory in faxt, isn't it ? 1/You may use DFS to replicate profile between both server 2/These broken computers may had bad dns, no dhcp lease, or switch trouble. This must be investigate anyway -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com <christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1187985769.785877.4340@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > Hi all. I am having a few technical difficulties concerning our > Primary Domain Controller at logon. > > Our network is currently set up with 2 domain controllers one which > has the DHCP and the DNS configured on it. The second domain > controller only has the DNS configured on it. Where I work is a school > so we have GPO set up to redirect the desktop folder and the programs > menu to a location on the server. The desktop and programs gets > redirected to the primary domain controller which has the DNS and the > DHCP configured on it. > > This works most of the time and re-directs the folders to the server > but sometimes it does fail and redirect it and then when you refresh > the desktop the desktop and the programs menu drops out. However in > two of the rooms it is the worst where it always fails. However when I > redirect the foldrers to a location on the second domain controller it > works absolutely fine without ever failing. > > When you log onto a computer within the two rooms that had the worst > problem it comes up with a balloon message the says currently working > offline with the name of the primary domain controller. When you go on > to start then run and then type in \\servername which is the server > name of the primary domain controller it should have about 6 shares > appear. However only 1 of them appear but when you try and get into > it, it comes up saying access denied. However when you type in to the > run command \\ip address which is the ip address to the primary domain > controller all the shares appear and works fine. However I can ping > the primary domain controller by name and IP address without it losing > any packets. > > When I look at the registry I find a registry key called LogonServer > which has the name of the domain controller. I did try and change the > registry key so it pointed to the second domain controller but > whenever I log back in again it changes the registry key back to the > primary domain controller. > > Is there away that I can force that computer alone to log on to the > secondary domain controller and stop it from logging onto the primary > domain controller without having to change any settings on the actual > domain controller itself. > > Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated. > > Thank you >
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