File Replication Errors

[Hot Gal]

Hi. I'm having trouble getting the FRS to work correctly on LAN network.

I keep getting event ID 13508 in the Event log.

The message I am getting is as follows:

The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from
Server-A to Server-B for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain. FRS will keep retrying.

Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning.

1. FRS can not correctly resolve the DNS name for server 2 from server 1.
2. FRS is not running on server 2
3. The topology information in the Active Directory for this replica has not
yet replicated to all the Domain Controllers.
This event log message will appear once for each connection. After the
problem is fixed you will see another event log message that indicates that
the connection has been established.

I can ping each server from the other using their FQDN. Both servers are
running Windows 2000 Server.

To resolve this problem have also tried I synchronizing the computer's
clock with the domain controller that is the authoritative time server. For
each server that was experiencing this difficulty, I opened a CMD prompt and
typed:
net time \\ComputerName_Of_Authoritative_Time_Server /set /y
net stop ntfrs
net start ntfrs

Can anyone offer me any suggestions on how to get rid of this error?

Thanks.

 

[johnny red]

Dude

I'm having same issues

Have you worked through http://www.microsoft.com/frs info.

There are a number of tools and articles to help
troubleshoot FRS.

If I get a solution I'll let you know.

Johnny Red

-----Original Message-----
Hi. I'm having trouble getting the FRS to work correctly on LAN network.

I keep getting event ID 13508 in the Event log.

The message I am getting is as follows:

The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from
Server-A to Server-B for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain. FRS will keep retrying.

Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning.

1. FRS can not correctly resolve the DNS name for server 2 from server 1.
2. FRS is not running on server 2
3. The topology information in the Active Directory for this replica has not
yet replicated to all the Domain Controllers.
This event log message will appear once for each connection. After the
problem is fixed you will see another event log message that indicates that
the connection has been established.

I can ping each server from the other using their FQDN. Both servers are
running Windows 2000 Server.

To resolve this problem have also tried I synchronizing the computer's
clock with the domain controller that is the authoritative time server. For
each server that was experiencing this difficulty, I opened a CMD prompt and
typed:
net time

\\ComputerName_Of_Authoritative_Time_Server /set /y