Win98 client can't login to the AD domain

[Dinendra]

Hi,

I have demoted and repromoted a DC, in an AD forest due to
lack of free hard disk space on the DC. This DC is
physically situated in a different site and all subnets,
sites, site links are properly created in the AD. Before
demoting the server, the win 95/98 clients were abale to
login to domain.
But after promoting, only 2 win98 clients could abale to
login. But all the win2kpro clients can login without any
problem. There is a DNS service installled in this DC.
Only W2kPro client PCs and 2 win98 client pcs(the 2 which
are abale to login) details are available in DNS entries.
And there is a DHCP service also running on this DC. DHCP
service is configured to issue IPs, DNS server IP and
default gateway to the clients. No WINS is running in the
server.

When i try to login to the domain from a win98 PC, it
says " No domain controller is available to validate your
username or password, You may not able to access some
network resources in the domain", and i have the 2
options "OK" and "Cancel". If i click OK and proceed, an
IP from the DHCP server(DC) is availabled in the PC. And i
can see the issued ip for the win98 clients in the DHCP
console in the server(DC).

Note: I have selected the Pre-Windows 2000 option when
configuring the active directory.

What could be the reason for this problem?
please advice

Thanks & Regards

Dinendra

 

[Tim Hines, MCSA, MCSE]

That error usually indicates a name resolution problem. You can try using a
LMHOSTS file on the 98 clients to determine if that is the case or you can
setup wins. The article below will tell you how to create the file.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;180094&Product=w98


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[dinendra]

Tim,

Thanks for the advice. Will do the needful and get back to
you.

rgds

Dinendra