Re: Disappearing Workstations

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That is correct, the workstation record is no longer present, vanished and
some machine accounts just show up as disabled and no longer function until I
re-enable them. How does an machine account become disabled? other than when
an administrator disables the machine account.

Thanks for your suggestions, but no luck everything looks clean.

"Steve Duff [MVP]" wrote:

> Do you mean that the workstation record no longer exists in AD at all? (That would be unusual in my experience.) Or that these
> machine accounts are disabled in AD or not working for logon?
>
> My initial suggestions would be to
>
> 1) check time synchronization and time zones on the workstations and server
> 2) look in the server and workstation event logs for any concurrent errors that might suggest a cause
> 3) Rename the offending computers and explicitly dis-join and re-join them to the domain
> 4) Run nltest and (if needed) netdom to verify and fix any trust problems with the computer accounts
> 5) Take delete access off the machine account's AD record so that whatever is trying to delete it will have a hard time
>
> I am assuming you don't have other DCs as replication issues would be another consideration.
>
> Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
> Ergodic Systems, Inc.
>
> "Tim" <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CFE5D559-E780-47A8-AD12-A601B0A6B1E1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've had a number of instances where computers are being deleted or disabled
> > from the domain, there are only 2 administrators here so neither one of us
> > did this. They are logging onto the domain one day and the next day or a
> > few days later or in one case, later that day, the computer no longer exists
> > in the domain. This doesn't happen with all computers just some. We have
> > three remote sites, when I need to create a computer for one of this remote
> > sites, I create the computer account on the remote site Domain Controller.
> > Has anybody else seen this? OS is Windows 2003 SP1.
> >
> > TIA
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