NT 4 domain clients authenticating to AD member server

[John Collins]

We have:

A native mode AD domain (AD) with several DC's and one member server.

Four (A,B,C,D) NT4 domains with Win2K/XP clients.

Trust (two-way) exists between the AD domain and the NT4 domains.

The member server was a member of one of the NT4 domains previously.

Our issue:

A client in domain A logs into his XP client. She wants to open a share on
the member server in domain AD. When trying to access the share she gets an
error stating that "no logon servers are available" to validate her request.

On the member server a failure audit is generated; ID #537, An unexpected
error occurred during logon via NTLM

Log entries on the AD DC indicate ID #5719, No Windows NT Domain Controller
is available for domain <domain name>.

Is this a connectivity issue or an authenticatiion issue with either
kerberos or NTLM?

In native mode NTLM is not used between servers, what about between clients
in the NT domain and servers in the AD domain?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

John Collins

 

[John Collins]

Tim,

You hit the nail on the head. There were no WINS entries on the AD DC's.
Once they activated WINS on those our issue went away. Thanks for the quick
and accurate reply.

Regards,

John