Re: Wierd issue.

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Have no immediate answer to you, but wuld like some clarification regarding
the promotion you mention at the end.

When you say that you have both Win2K and Win2K3, how is the DCs set up?

Are all the domain controllers exlusively Win2K or exclusively Win2K3?

Was it perhaps so that you had a Win2K domain (only Win2K DCs), and promoted
a Win2K3 machine to DC using DCPROMO?
This would in effect make the domains function as a Win2K3 domain in mixed
mode (search for domain functional level, and forrest functional level).

Some more info would be nice.

// Henrik




"juan-n-OC" <juan-n-OC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have a couple of 2003 and 2000 servers across to office locations.
Office
> A has 2 exchange servers and 4 file servers. Office B has 1 Exchage
server
> and 2 File servers. One day exchange server in Office B can not get mail
> from office A. Shares are unavailible and nothing out of the ordinary
shows
> up in the event viewer. We reboot and everything works fine. Next day
> Office A cannot read shares in Office B until reboot and everything is
fine.
> All servers are pingable. This has been going on for almost 2 weeks. The
> only commonality is that we promoted a 2003 server in Office A and 1 2003
> server in Office B recently. Anythoughts?


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