Comments on: Windows 2000 server domains BDC and PDC

By: jb31021

jb31021 — Fri, 13 May 2005 08:16:55 +0000

Thanks to all!!!, Problem is resolved. There wer no sites defined in AD Sites and Services…

By: jb31021

jb31021 — Fri, 13 May 2005 08:15:42 +0000

Thanks to all!!!, Problem is resolved. There wer no sites defined in AD Sites and Services…

By: buzzcox

buzzcox — Fri, 13 May 2005 04:31:04 +0000

If your users are authenticating against the off site controller then you need to make this a global catalog as well to stop the logon authentications going accross the WAN links.
This is done in the AD sites and services.

By: paulieeddie

paulieeddie — Thu, 12 May 2005 23:14:27 +0000

You should check the Active Directory Sites and Services. You will need to make sure that the network subnets for the local and the remote sites are all defined. Further, you will need to make sure that all of the subnets are assigned to the appropriate domain controller.

When a client machine looks for a domain controller to authenticate against, it reviews the subnet and the assigned site. So say your local subnet is 192.168.1.x and the remote subnet is 10.1.1.x. If there are no subnets in Active Directory Sites and Services, the system will select a random system (actually it goes through a series of checks) in any case it has a good opporunity to select the wrong system. So you need to make sure that 192.168.1.x is assigned to the Default-First-Site-Name and teh 10.1.1.x is assigned to the site that the remote DC is in.