No LOGON Servers Available

[Tim Board]

I am having a AD problem. Here is the situation.

I have done all the necessary steps to make the 2nd AD server a Global
Catalog server, and transfer all the FSMO roles to the 2nd AD server. I have
even make a change according to Technet article #241789 to Disable the
Requirement that a Global Catalog Server Be Available to Validate User
Logons. I made this change to the first AD server and rebooted it. No matter
what I do, if I shutdown the first AD server, users can logon, but it takes
a while for them to get validated, and when they try to connect to resources
they get the error message of "No Logon Servers are Available". If I bring
the first server back online, then it all works ok. I need to shutdown the
first server and take it out and replace it, but I can't do so if I am
experiencing this problem. Can someone help?

Thanks...

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Is this new server showing up in DNS properly? Do the client machine point
to the old server for DNS and not the new one?

 

[Tim Board]

I have changed the DHCP server to point to the new DNS server. I had all
clients reboot. I ran IPCONFIG on the clients to make sure they are picking
up the new DNS server. I believe the new server is showing up in DNS
correctly. Is there something to run to check?

 

[ptwilliams]

Netdiag (part of the support tools) will tell you if there's any issues with
DNS:
-- netdiag /test:dns


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I have changed the DHCP server to point to the new DNS server. I had all
clients reboot. I ran IPCONFIG on the clients to make sure they are picking
up the new DNS server. I believe the new server is showing up in DNS
correctly. Is there something to run to check?