I have 3 W2K servers and a mixture of 98, Millenium and W2K professional
clients. The 3 servers are domain controllers.

If I change password then it ripples through all servers as expected, but if
I add a new user through any server then it doesn't. It just stays on the
server used to add it.

It gets stranger, if I log on through any of the servers then the new user
can log on fine, event though they only appear in the user list of the
server they were added through. But that user cannot log on through any
client, they just get the standard 'you don't exist on any server' message.

Can I tell Active directory to 'start again', using the list from machine X?
Any other suggestions?

Thanks
Dean Bisseker
Leeds, England

You can use the restore subtree command in NTDSUTIL in Directory Services
Restore mode to raise the versions of all the objects on one server,
ensuring that these objects will be the objects that replicate. Then you
would force replication. I have used this method in the past to fix corrupt
objects.

Corey

"dean" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have 3 W2K servers and a mixture of 98, Millenium and W2K professional
> clients. The 3 servers are domain controllers.
>
> If I change password then it ripples through all servers as expected, but
if
> I add a new user through any server then it doesn't. It just stays on the
> server used to add it.
>
> It gets stranger, if I log on through any of the servers then the new user
> can log on fine, event though they only appear in the user list of the
> server they were added through. But that user cannot log on through any
> client, they just get the standard 'you don't exist on any server'
message.
>
> Can I tell Active directory to 'start again', using the list from machine
X?
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Dean Bisseker
> Leeds, England
>
>

hello dean, could you first try to run the following command?
"repadmin.exe /syncall /force" and post or email me directly the output?
it sounds like you might have a DNS issue

tx

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"dean" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have 3 W2K servers and a mixture of 98, Millenium and W2K professional
> clients. The 3 servers are domain controllers.
>
> If I change password then it ripples through all servers as expected, but
if
> I add a new user through any server then it doesn't. It just stays on the
> server used to add it.
>
> It gets stranger, if I log on through any of the servers then the new user
> can log on fine, event though they only appear in the user list of the
> server they were added through. But that user cannot log on through any
> client, they just get the standard 'you don't exist on any server'
message.
>
> Can I tell Active directory to 'start again', using the list from machine
X?
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Dean Bisseker
> Leeds, England
>
>