RE: Terminal server logon issue

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I'm running DC's on VMWare now, and have run plenty more on it in the past,
and have never encountered a problem like that, but I guess I would start
with the VMWare firewall, which could be blocking the important DC ports.
This should help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555381

Try that out and let me know if it makes a difference. Also, you may want
to try running the AD Topology Diagramer. It's a valuable tool for
determining what is really going on in your AD environment. In particular,
you may want to see what is going on with your site configuration.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-862661742764&displaylang=en

"admintgal" wrote:

We have 2 forests Asia and America connected with a two way forest to forest
trust with Selective authentication.

We have a terminal services environment in the America Forest and we have
clients in the Asia forest using that terminal services environment. We just
configured a Domain Controller for the asia forest that is physcially located
in an American site to help speed up authentication. That new DC is on
VMware ESX 3.0.1.

The problem we are having is when we log on through terminal services server
with an Asian account we get an error saying RPC server is unavailable, but
when we log in physically to the TS that same user gets on with out any
problems at all. The other thing is if we power off the new DC on the vmware
environment TS and physical log on both work. So something is up with that
DC. Any ideas? Is VMware causing problems for the DC?

I hope this is enough info.

Please advise.
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