Netlogon issues

[Raj]

Keep having issues where users are being disconnected
from Mapped share drives, and when they relogin not
mapping to the shared drive at all. This is occuring for
users that login to a W2K DC>

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Raj,

What is the client computer: maybe WINXP? If that is the case look at the
Fast Logon Optimization that WINXP uses ( out of the box ).

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305293

HTH,

Cary

 

[Raj]

Cary,

The client machines are all Windows 2000 w/ SP3 or SP4 on
them. Not all of them lose the connection it's weird,
and then when they log back on, it doesn't run their
login script from the backup DC. please help.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Raj,

Sorry - should have been more thorough.

What do you mean by 'being disconnected'? Do you mean that when they logon
they are indeed receiving their mapped network drives but then at a later
time the mapped network drives are simply no longer available? or do you
mean that there is that red X ( if this is the case all you *typically* have
to do is simply double click on the icon and you are in ).

When the log off and then back on they are not getting the logon script,
correct? What happens if they reboot? What happens if they turn off the
computer and then turn it back on. I know that the logon script happens
with logging on, but let's see if the results is the same.

What type of logon script are we talking about? A .bat script? a .cmd
script? a .vbs script? a kixtart script? And how is it being 'delivered' -
via NETLOGON or via GPO or some other method?

Could we see a quick example of the script?

Do you have any event ids on the clients?

Are all of your clients pointing *ONLY* to your internal DNS Servers?

HTH,

Cary

 

[Raj]

Cary,

THis is also part of my situation:

I have promoted a W2k server to a DC, there is a Primary
DC on the domain. We are having login issues when users
autenticate to the backup DC. If you look in Computer
management, the netlogon share shows up in old location
of c:\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts, but there are
no scripts located there. Everything is in
c:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domain\scripts. Please help if
anyone has any ideas why this is staying like that.
..

 

[Raj]

Cary,
This is happening when they reboot and log back in(if pc
locked up then reboot). When they login in the morning
it is fine. The login script is a .bat script and does
not run at all. If I manually run the script then all
drives get mapped.

The disconnect problem I think is related with
Autodisconnect so I was able to change that paramater.

Here is example of script:
net use l: /delete
net use o: /delete
net use l: \\gis_sde\gisdata
net use o: \\gis_sde\orthos
net use x: \\serverf\budget
net use v: \\serverf\jejohnso
call \\serverf\netlogon\stdlog.bat

Serverf is my Main DC. It is being delivered via
netlogon, and I have a backup DC as well. I think the
issues are coming from the backup DC, but not sure.

 

[Raj]

cary,
one more thing

The backup DC was upgraded from Win NT 4.0 to W2k and
DCpromo was run. So if you go into Computer Management
and look at the shares the netlogon share points to the
c;\winnt\system32\repl\improt\scirpts. But it shoudl be
on c;|winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domain\scirpts. all the scirpts
are in sysvol, and repl\scripts is empty.