Re: slow login problems at branch office

Hi


Couple of things:



- Make sure that you have at least 1 GC per site.

- Make sure that you defined the appropriate subnets in AD Sites and
Services.

- Make Sure that each Dns server only points to itself under Nic properties.

- Make sure that local clients only use their local Dns server.

- If your between subnets, and you use NetBIOS resolution (for example to
browse network neighborhood), make sure that you have Wins in both Sites
replicating with each other.

- Make sure that your Dns servers can resolve each other domain, or each
other FQDN.




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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"Charles Hunt" <Charles(trying to reduce spam)huntrad.net> wrote in message
news:erUutpiiGHA.4040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have two sites linked by a VPN connection which works fine. I can ping
machines from both sides and DNS seems to be happily resolving FQDNs etc
as well as machine names. I can also access the DCs by using the
\\mydomain.com\sysvol so (with a bit of trickery).. All my DCs are 2000
SP4 machines and based in the main site.

The branch office is new and i have moved across some existing
workstations to that office.

BUT all machines in the branch office, are not logging in properly. The
XP/2000 machines take an age to log in (20mins+) and things are not really
working correctly. I have a 2003 member server which i put in to perform
DHCP which I managed to authorize remotely. (after a bit of effort and it
took about 15 mins to finally authorize)

When I try to login to the 2003 server remotely using RDP it won't let me,
the error message is "access denied" and the event log shows a 40960 error
which is "domain controller unavailable". What really perplexes me is that
I can ping and access the machines, the DNS seems to be OK, but obviously
there is some kind of problem with the AD. I am wondering if there is a
TCP/UDP port which is being blocked or some other communication problem
which isn't apparent with ping and DNS look ups. (i have checked the
reverse zone on the DNS which seems to be updating and working fine)

I have the RESKIT2000 but not entirely sure which tool can help me in this
particular problem.

any ideas or tools that could help me get a fix on this problem would be
VERY VERY welcome.

kind regards

Charles



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