Hello Parvardigar,
How is the connection between main and remote office? Router to router or
VPN connection? Please post an unedited ipconfig /all from both DC/DNS servers.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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> Hello
>
> I own, and manage, a small company. I am able to maintain a stable
> network without the experience of a System Administrator. When extreme
> difficulties develop I have an independent support company that
> remotely administers, and if it is a crisis, they send over to our
> site a tech support team.
>
> We are connected over a WAN from the corporate office to our remote
> Warehouse. The Warehouse workers connect via a Citrix Session to
> process orders using the Navision Database at the corporate office. At
> the corporate office we have the Domain Controller and the Terminal
> Server.
>
> The difficulties arose several months ago. I couldn't access the
> Warehouse after opening Network places. I couldn't access the
> Warehouse using RDP.
>
> The independent company's tech people inspected the BDC at the
> Warehouse. They indicated the troubles to be DNS, and that they were
> unable to repair, correct, and /or configure DNS.
>
> I would want to be able to fix this computer's DNS situation, Windows
> 2000 SP4, serving as a Backup Domain Controller to a healthy state.
> Here is the problem: this company indicated we could keep working
> under these unusually conditions but that we should replace the Dell
> Optiplex with a new computer installed with Server 2003. That would be
> a great solution; however, we simply cannot afford to buy the
> replacement computer.
>
> Is it possible to correct this problem? I can't image we are without a
> remedy. Why I say that is because for the last several years this
> computer performed without a glitch. Somehow last year something went
> amiss with DNS. And I can't image this situation cannot be corrected.
>
> Here are the shortened notes from Event Viewer:
>
> NETLOGON Event ID 5774 Computer: EYEWORKS-BDC Description:
> Registration of the DNS record '_kpasswd._udp.laeyeworks.com. 600 IN
> SRV 0 100 464 eyeworks-bdc.laeyeworks.com ' failed with the following
> error. DNS operation refused.
>
> NETLOGON Event ID 5774 Computer: EYEWORKS-BDC Description:
> Registration of the DNS record '_kpasswd._tcp.laeyeworks.com. 600 IN
> SRV 0 100 464 eyeworks-bdc.laeyeworks.com ' failed with the following
> error. DNS operation refused.
>
> NETLOGON: Registration of the DNS record
> '_idap._tcp.dc_msdcs.laeyeworks.com. 600 IN SRV 0 100 464 eyeworks-
> bdc.laeyeworks.com ' failed with the following error. DNS operation
> refused.
>
> These sample type NETLOGON errors are plentiful. The workers do logon
> into their machines but it must local credentials that are accepted
> because if I use a special Admin login that login attempt fails.
>
> Next Event NTDS KCC Event ID: 1311 Description: The directory service
> consistency checker has determined that either there is not enough
> physical connectivity published via the Active Directory Sites and
> Services Manager to create a spanny tree connecting all the sites
> containing the Partition;
> CN=configuration, DC=laeyeworks, DC=com or replication cannot be
> performed with one or more critical servers in order for changes to
> propagate across all sites (most of due to the servers being
> unreachable.
> And the text continues with additional information.
>
> Event NTDS KCC Event ID: 1566
> Event NtFrs Event ID: 13508 Description: File Replication Service is
> having trouble enabling replication from EYEWORKS-PDC2 to EYEWORKS-BCD
> for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain using the DNS name eyeworks-
> pdc2.laeyeworks.com. FRS will keep retrying.
> This independent company has contracts with large corporations, and
> government agencies. We respect their insights, and have a healthy
> relationship with them. However, I have in inclination to believe this
> issue can be corrected without having to replace this machine. I would
> appreciate any suggestions if we can correct the severe DNS failures
> inherent in this computer's operating system.
>
> Sincerely
> John Marhsall
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