Re: 2nd Domain controller not authenticating logins

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From: Olaf Engelke [MVP] (oenews01_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/13/04


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:26:00 +0200

Hi Jeremy,
Jeremy wrote:
> We have 3 domain controllers running win2k server.
>
> Our marketing department is sending 16 systems to a tradeshow and they
> want to still be apart of our domain with seamless authentication
> between the 16 systems. So we figured that we could create a 4th
> domain controller and send it with the 16 systems. In theory we'd
> like this 4th server to authenticate the 16 tradeshow systems.
>
> I've created a win2k server called \\tradeshow. I promoted it to a
> domain controller. I applied SP4.

do you know about FSMO roles?
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

There are some, without which logon will not work.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf.