Re: \\computername error: The target account name is incorrect.

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From: Sergey L (SergeyL_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:03:02 -0800

Steven, thank you for your advice.

This morning one of the users couldn't log in anywhere on the network. I
linked it back night before when I tried following Microsoft article,
disabling kerberos center and resetting netdom. But I ran netdiag /fix and it
solved the problem. However old problem of not being able to access
\\EXCHANGE remains.

Couple more facts:
When looking at \\DC2 DNS, first DNS server \\EXCHANGE has STOP sign next to
it and said access is denied.
DC2 DNS can be accessed ok.

C:\>net use \\exchange
System error 1396 has occurred.

Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect.

after running netdiag /fix on \\DC2 the only warning message came up was this
 [WARNING] Failed to query SPN registration on DC
'exchange.domain_name.local'.

But I'm not sure if it was there before and Microsoft article mentiones it
as known but harmless warning.

netdiag /fix ran fine on \\EXCHANGE second time

I will monitor both DCs over weekend and keep searching for solution.

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