Workstation Logon

[Jurbop]

I have created a user account on the Domain Controller,
and when I try to logon at a workstation, I get a message
stating "The system cannot log you on now because the
domain "DOMAINNAME" is not available". The workstation is
communicating with the DC because I am able to logon using
the DC administrator's account. I have checked my Group
Policies, and cannot find any setting that would prevent
me from logging on from a workstation with this account.
Please help. Thank you.

 

[ptwilliams]

The fact that you can logon with the domain administrator account and not a
user probably means that the DC you are authenticating with cannot contact a
GC.

If this is, like I assume, a single DC or very small environment, then this
DC *is* a GC. Therefore, it's probably down to missing SRV records in DNS.

On the DC, ensure that the DHCP client service is running (even though
you've got a static IP) and that the DNS zone accepts automatic updates.
Then restart the netlogon service.

In order to help troubleshoot problems such as this you may wish to install
the support tools, located in the \support directory on your Windows server
CDROM. The nltest tool is great for checking that you can contact a DC,
discovering what site you are in, what DC will authenticate you, etc.

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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net
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I have created a user account on the Domain Controller,
and when I try to logon at a workstation, I get a message
stating "The system cannot log you on now because the
domain "DOMAINNAME" is not available". The workstation is
communicating with the DC because I am able to logon using
the DC administrator's account. I have checked my Group
Policies, and cannot find any setting that would prevent
me from logging on from a workstation with this account.
Please help. Thank you.