Re: Domain controllers

Couple of things
1) You Said "even if we turn off the DCOld the clients still try to authenticate against it." How did you determine that?
2) Have you run DCDiag on the new machine?
3) What does the Event Log say?
4) Have you verified the DNS records? SRV Records?

"Smokey Grindel" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ORe2Y5A4HHA.3900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Each DC has a DNS server, DHCP runs on its own server. We manage our own DNS internally. Clients are all windows XP Pro systems. This is a single domain in a 2 domain controller forest

"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uiO3fvA4HHA.5880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Howdie!

Smokey Grindel schrieb:
I think we are at more of a problem then just that... even if we turn off the DCOld the clients still try to authenticate against it... not sure why then they come back with cant talk to domain controller on their system instead of even trying to go to DCNew... any ideas?

What does the client DNS configuration look like?

cheers,

Florian
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