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workstations in our
office, the rest of them (about 60) are WIN2k Pro on to a domain and
receiving ip address from DHCP, 1054 and 5719 are being logged by the setting are
fine, i looked at fast logon optimization on the XP workstation and turned
it off by enabling policy, last thing i did i checked our switch for
Spanning Tree protcol and it was not enabled connecting using DHCP, if i
use static ip i do not have a problem--- no errors appreciate your
input
Looking at the error messages, this is what I dig up:
Event ID 1054:
Description: Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your
computer network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not
be contacted). Group Policy processing aborted.
Event ID 5719: Description: No Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller
is available for domain Domain. The following error occurred:
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.
I'm 99.999999999999% sure you have DNS misconfigured.
Failure to find a domain controller is essentially a name resolution issue.
Try to ping the domain controller by IP address, NetBIOS name and FQDN:
eg:
ping 192.168.0.200
ping bigdogdc01
ping bigdogdc01.mydomain.com
( obviously using your own IP addresses, names and FQDN. )
If the 3rd one ( FQDN ) fails, then you for sure have a DNS problem.
Here's a description of how DNS *must* be configured...
XP differs from previous versions of windows in that it uses
DNS as it's primary name resolution method for finding domain
controllers:
How Domain Controllers Are Located in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;314861
If DNS is misconfigured, XP will spend a lot of time waiting for it to
timeout before it tries using legacy NT4 sytle NetBIOS.
( Which may or may not work. )
1) Ensure that the XP clients are all configured to point to the local
DNS server which hosts the AD domain. That will probably be the
win2k server itself.
They should NOT be pointing an an ISP's DNS server.
An 'ipconfig /all' on the XP box should reveal ONLY the domain's
DNS server.
( you should use the DHCP server to push out the local DNS server
address. )
2) Ensure DNS server on win2k is configured to permit dynamic updates.
3) Ensure the win2k server points to itself as a DNS server.
4) For external ( internet ) name resolution, specify your ISP's DNS server
not on the clients, but in the 'forwarders' tab of the local win2k DNS
server.
On the DNS server, if you cannot access the 'Forwarders' and 'Root Hints'
tabs because they are greyed out, that is because there is a root zone (".")
present on the DNS server. You MUST delete this root zone to permit the
server to forward unresolved queries to yout ISP or the root servers:
HOWTO: Remove the Root Zone (Dot Zone)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=298148
The following articles may assist you in setting up DNS correctly:
Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;237675
HOW TO: Configure DNS for Internet Access in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;300202
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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking
Thank you Ron for quick response!!!
I do understand it sounds like a DNS issue and
.I checked Dns once again according to your advise and it
