LOGONSERVER question

[Mike Richter]

I have a fully designed AD with windows 2000 advanced servers, At the home
site I have 3 DC's and 30 other DC's geographically dispersed.. one of my
users at the home site keeps on logging on to the servers located at another
site, I can't really understand why, the user has 3 DC that she can log on
to at the home site but she keeps on logging on to other sites that is not
located at the home site..


the users machine is Win2000 w/ sp4, the DC's are all patched and
up-to-date,
The user and the machine that the user is logging into is located at the
correct OU.


Can anyone help?

 

[ptwilliams]

First thing to check is that the correct subnets are associated with the
correct sites. I've seen a typo here cause users to logon to any DC in the
country. If you leave all of your site links with the default cost, or just
leave them all in the defaultfirstlink and a subnet is wrong, then the user
will logon to random machines (almost, subnet prioritisation and round-robin
play a little part).

If these are fine, then you need to then address her IP configuration. What
DNS server is she using? Is here subnet mask wrong (i.e., 23 bit instead of
24, 15 instead of 16, etc.)?

The OU has nothing to do with localisation; OUs are simply administrative
containers (that is, they're there for your benefit).

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I have a fully designed AD with windows 2000 advanced servers, At the home
site I have 3 DC's and 30 other DC's geographically dispersed.. one of my
users at the home site keeps on logging on to the servers located at another
site, I can't really understand why, the user has 3 DC that she can log on
to at the home site but she keeps on logging on to other sites that is not
located at the home site..


the users machine is Win2000 w/ sp4, the DC's are all patched and
up-to-date,
The user and the machine that the user is logging into is located at the
correct OU.


Can anyone help?

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Mike,

Take a look at the following MSKB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306602


Also, take a look at these two as well:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=247811
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314861

HTH,

Cary

 

[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

That is strange. Are you 100% sure, that the user IP segment is located in
site with home DC's ? Check in your DNS under sites folder that your DC's
are registered for particular site. You can also use nltest to verify what
DC's are in what site.
You can run the following script on the client to get its site name:

Set oSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
MsgBox oSysInfo.SiteName

this should return client site name.

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