No logon servers available to service the logon request...

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Hello,

We are having a strange error with certain servers in our domain in which
people from another domain are not able to access through UNC shares on
certain servers in our domain. If they put in a command such as

net use * \\server\share

they get

There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.

But, if they put in the command and pass the "user" paramater, it works:

net use * \\server\share /user:Username

If they put in

net use * \\server.domain.org\share

It works, but the strange thing is that they can ping by just using the non
FQDN host name.

Is this a problem with DNS, or the domain in which the server resides, or
both?

Any info appreciated.

 

[James W. Long]

Hello,

We are having a strange error with certain servers in our domain in which
people from another domain are not able to access through UNC shares on
certain servers in our domain. If they put in a command such as

net use * \\server\share

they get

There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.

But, if they put in the command and pass the "user" paramater, it works:

net use * \\server\share /user:Username

sound like the domain wants authentication by username, and anonymous users
are disabled.

If they put in

net use * \\server.domain.org\share

It works, but the strange thing is that they can ping by just using the non
FQDN host name.

ping "server"? Thats not strange at all, its normal. Hostnames are resolved
using netbios over tcpip, not dns.

Is this a problem with DNS, or the domain in which the server resides, or
both?

neither. log in using a user name, or get the system admins to allow
anonymous good luck.