Client Affinity and password changes

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rav

Hi,

My question is about client affinity and password changes.

I setup a 2003 domain with 2 sites with 2 DC's in each site. Put an
additional subnet in which my clients were on and placed the subnet in site
1 for example. So when any client logs on they validate against a DC in site
1, so all is well there. No clients are set to validate to a DC in site 2.

Now if I reset a users password on a DC in site 2 and there affinity is set
to site 1 their logon server becomes the PDC emulator (which is in site 2).
So basically the clients lose their affinity for a password change.

Whats happening? Is the DC in site 1 not recognising the password and
forwarding the request to the PDC emulator in site 2. But the problem is
that I am basically losing my client affinity.

I would have though that the PDC emulator would replicate the password back
to the DC in the proper site and the clients would retain the proper
affinity.

Any thoughts?
 
If you familiar with repadmin run it to make sure there is no replication
errors, are the clients WindowsXP or Windows2000, have them been upgraded
from WindowsNT4.0?
 
And have not been upgraded or existed in a WindowsNT4.0 Domain before? Do
you running last Service Packs both at client and Domain Controllers? (Have
to ask some questions to start debugging this.)
 
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