Re: Cached logon for multiple domain


Garion Goh wrote:
Scenario :

We have x no. of clients, say 10 and y no. of domain, say 2.
- 5 of these 10 clients belong to domain A and 5 to domain B
- clients need to logon. starts their VPN before connecting to their
respective DC
- domain A and domain B are sometimes connected but not always
- domain A and domain B are in different forest but have forest trust

so when user logon, they see 3 options under their <logon to> list
- domain A
- domain B
- (local)

We want to have all 10 clients able to logon to their computer selecting
either domain A or B, whether they have network connection or not.

We do not want them to logon using the local admin account when there is
no network; we want them to still use their user account (i.e. their
cached accounts)to log on cos the user profiles are pre-configured already.

With domain A and B connected up, we managed to cached all the clients
to logon to both domain, but after a while, some of the clients run into
"unable to find domain controller issue".

What could be the problem?

No. of cached logons Registry key is set to 10.

Rgds

Hi,

This seems to have problems with the DNS.
Check with the DNS Server, that it must be able to resolve all the
domains. All internal DNS clients NIC\IP properties must specify
SOLELY that internal, dynamic DNS server (set). Try with dcdiag.exe
and netdiag.exe, these AD support tools will let you verify DNS is
functioning correctly on your network. Run this command while facing
the issue,
netdiag /test:dsgetdc /d:DomainName /v
and check with the results.
-
Adam,
Admanager Plus Team.

.

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