Re: User Name Not Found

Hmm... Sounds like a couple of problems. Most likely, if you have that type
of problem, those DC's are so far out of sync that one of them is no longer
useable. Assuming this is the same domain.
Fortunately, this is fairly easy to fix.

Here's what I'd do.
1) check the event logs and find out what's going on. Are there replication
errors?
2) Verify and fix your DNS. Tools such as DCDIAG can be very helpful in
finding such problems. There's no reason to host your dns elsewhere that
would make sense to me. Your DNS should be hosted internally. NOTE: If
things are bad and you inherited this, it's possible that you have a DNS
domain name for Active Directory that's the same as your public domain zone.
That would not be optimal.
3) Once you've sorted out DNS, if you find out that one of the domain
controllers has not replicated for more than 60 days, then you'll want to
remove the one that is not the role holder. As long as the roles haven't
been transferred or moved around, this is relatively painless.
3a) If you can do this, then demote the non-fsmo role holder, then add one
back. This is to provide for some resiliency should hardware fail.

It all starts with the event logs. Sort out the problems you see there one
at a time starting with Name Resolution. The rest will begin to fall into
place after that. Don't forget the client side settings that must use the
same name resolution as your domain controllers. Preferably, your domain
controllers should host active directory integrated dns.

Al



"SummerCoke" <SummerCoke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:369977EF-84E3-4105-B53E-E3EE5EEF170C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All,

my company has a windows 2000 server running as domain controller and
another windows 2000 running as backup domian controller. I am having a
problem with user account creation. I have to create the same user account
in
both domain controller and if not some user might not be able to log in to
the domain controller.

I find out from the technical guy before me, he say we have no DNS server
running locally in our LAN and the only DNS we use in our ISP's DNS server
jsut for the online purpose.

Was the problem due to the both domain controllers didn't setup correct to
recognise each other or we need DNS server running locally in our LAN or
any
other problem I didn't think of ? any help is very very much appreciated.

Thanks and Regards.
--
Bernard goh


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