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Nimick
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 File Replication Between Servers for AD
Active Directory, Active Directory errors, Active Directory File Replication, Error: RPC server not available, RPC
I have three domain controllers and on one server I am receiving Event error 13508 messages which tells me the server is not replicationg. I tried a manual replication through Sites and Services and received a RPC server is unavailable. The server which is not working correctly is in a different physical location so the problem could be firewall related

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ASKED: July 6, 2009  5:13 PM
UPDATED: August 9, 2009  4:51 AM
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trouble shooting rule start from easiest thing . 1- try to check that you are are connected with that server . 2- try to telnet different ports like 53 and others 3- try to do gpupdate on server not working if it gives the same error as RPC is unavailable then try to restart so see the dhcp client and dns services . 4- try to check the DNS records created for all servers . 5- try to restart netlog on , workstation and file replication service . 6- if still doesn't work try to run netstat and see the port working at back . 7- also check windows firewall . 7- in site and services check that you have you servers as global catalog . any other help please let me know .
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Is this a recent development or has it always had this problem? Have you investigated the firewall possibility yet?

Technochic
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After the posting a made a small change within AD ( changed the name of a computer) and the change did replicate over the server which I thought was not updating. The server is updating but is still reporting events of 13508 at times. I do not have any 13509 events.

Not sure exactly what the problem is.

Thanks

John

Nimick
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Perform a netdiag and dcdiag (windows support tools).

You may find the following useful as well

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327341/en-us

and sonar from here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=158cb0fb-fe09-477c-8148-25ae02cf15d8&displaylang=en

Bjarcevic
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