Cannot Find Domain Controller

[dave Admin]

I have WIN2000 with AD for 10 staff who use this server for MS Great Plains
financial software. I am planning on migrating all staff to WINdows from
Netware for file and print services. As the admin I have a domain logon for
MS as well as the 10 GP users. I have setup a new XP, SP2 workstation and
added it to the domain. I can logon to the domain instead of a local
account but I cannot log on any other of the 10 domain users, I get a: "A
domain controller cannot be found for the specified domain"; but as soon as
I put in my user name I log onto the domain.

What could be causing this?

daveM

 

[Guest]

Some things to look out for:

How many Domain Controllers (DC) do you have?

Are they all found in the same AD site (same IP subnet)?

Has AD replication completed successfully between DCs?

Is an internal DNS running that allows (secure) dynamic
updates, including the DCs themselves?

Do the clients have DNS settings pointing to one of the
internal DNS Servers?

Are you using cached credentials to login (your Domain
account)?

Did you try (e-mail address removed) (UPN) to login for
the clients (having problems)?

On the DCs, try :

net stop netlogon
net start netlogon

to force registrations of SRV records so that clients can
query the internal DNS server to locate a DC to login.

Do let us know if this helps. Thanks!

 

[Roger Abell]

On your domain controller(s) run
netdiag /fix
Then, run
netdiag
and verify that it does not show errors.
On all client machines make sure that they use only
your AD supporting DNS servers in their Tcp/Ip config.