Election Forcing

[Guest]

I'm having a problem with one of my Domain Controllers on a Windows 2000
network. The DC in question is running Win2K server, service pack 4. This
machine used to be the only domain controller in my domain, but as the domain
grew I've added two newer DCs and have moved the FSMO roles to the new
machines. However, the old DC throws the 8003, MrxSmb error in the event log
over and over again. I went into the registry and tried to turn off the old
DC from even participating in elections
(HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters) by setting the
isDomainMaster key to false and the MaintainServerList to no. However, this
seems to have had no effect. Any help you can offer would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks.

Chris

 

[ptwilliams]

The domain master browser will be the PDCe by default. If you've changed
the PDCe there's a chance that the old PDCe hasn't changed the
isDomainMaster from True back to Auto. Ensure that the PDCe isDomainMaster
is set to True, and that the other DCs are set to Auto. Also enable the
MaintainServerList (set it to Auto).

Once you've done this, restart the browser service on each DC.

You need to leave the default behaviour on DCs as they hold more weight in
elections and act as master browsers for subnets.

There's a good tool for helping understand/ diagnose problems with the
browser service called browstat. This is either a support or resource kit
tool.

Also, the Windows Server Resource Kit has a pretty comprehensive chapter on
the browser service. You might find this interesting:
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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...00/server/reskit/en-us/cnet/cnfi_brs_oynw.asp


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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/

I'm having a problem with one of my Domain Controllers on a Windows 2000
network. The DC in question is running Win2K server, service pack 4. This
machine used to be the only domain controller in my domain, but as the
domain
grew I've added two newer DCs and have moved the FSMO roles to the new
machines. However, the old DC throws the 8003, MrxSmb error in the event
log
over and over again. I went into the registry and tried to turn off the old
DC from even participating in elections
(HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters) by setting the
isDomainMaster key to false and the MaintainServerList to no. However, this
seems to have had no effect. Any help you can offer would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks.

Chris