RE: Netdiag, active directory problems

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I agree it's a DNS issue, but haven't been able to sort it out. Even tried
deleting the zone, removing dns, re-installing DNS re-creating the zone. Same
thing...

"lforbes" wrote:

Hi,

It sounds like you have a DNS issue. When Group Policy doesn't apply it is
usually a problem with DNS.

Is DNS installed on your domain and working properly? Is the IP on your XP
client pointing to the DC/DNS server in the TCP/IP Properties?

Here are my notes on it:

http://www.sd61.bc.ca/windows2000/DNS.htm

Cheers,
Lara



"alb" wrote:

Windows 2003 Domain, single DC. 10 XP clients. On 2 of them, I can log into
the domain, but my group policy is not being applied. DCdiag on DC passes
fine. After much research, discovered that netdiag reports errors on those
machines. the first time I ran netdiag, it failed DC discovery test, DC list
test, trust relationship test, kerberos test and LDAP test. Basic message for
all was that it couldn't find the DC in my domain (the same DC I'm logged
into !?!). Ran dcdiag /fix and then dcdiag again. Now just DC list and
kerberos fail. Ran netdiag /test:dclist and that all passed. Netdiag still
fails for DC list and Kerberos. I tried resetting the computer account and
leaving/rejoining the domain. When I tried to join, i couldn't get the login
prompt up unless I specified domainname.local for the domain to join as
opposed to the usual domainname.

The pressing issue is with the Group Policy not being applied, but I'm sure
it's because of the DCdiag issues. Can someone give me some guidance on where
to go from here?

Thanks,

Al

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