Re: Backup Domain Controller In SBS 2000 by Grecko
Grecko
Tue Oct 19 13:35:03 CDT 2004
Yeah both ip addresses show up. No it sits there a while and says something
like "No domain controller is available for domain <domain name>. There are
currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.". However,
I can go into the non-sbs server and see the user accounts....It just wont
let us login in when the SBS 2000 server is down...Gregg
"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
> I'm stumped - DNS was going to be my next suggestion.
>
> When you run ipconfig /all on a workstation, do both DNS servers show up?
> In any case, what I've seen with improperly configured DNS is not that a
> login would fail, but rather that it would take a long time to authenticate.
>
> What's the exact text of the message you receive when the login fails?
>
>
> "Grecko" <Grecko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CFE747A3-013E-4DFF-ABE4-564711AA2814@microsoft.com...
> > Yes. We are using windows 2000 and XP. I just want people to be able to
> > login into the network even if the SBS200 server is completely down for
> > some
> > reason. I am pretty sure I have setup the other domain controllers
> > correctly. All of them are set as Global Catalog Servers. The only thing
> > I
> > can think of is that the DNS is setup incorrectly. Right now, I have the
> > SBS
> > 2000 setup as the primary DNS and one of the other Domain controllers
> > setup
> > as the secondary DNS on our network....an other ideas...
> >
> >
> > "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> What I've seen is that if there is no DC available to authenticate
> >> logins,
> >> win2k and later will log in with cached credentials. Login with cached
> >> credentials fails if the SBS is online but not responding, apparently
> >> because the workstation knows the SBS is there but it's not getting an
> >> answer.
> >>
> >> Are you getting login failures if the SBS is completely shut down so that
> >> it
> >> won't even respond to a ping? What OS are the desktops running?
> >>
> >> "Grecko" <Grecko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:D3FE467B-3A26-46AB-AA0E-11051C3158F4@microsoft.com...
> >> >I am have added backup domain controllers to our SBS network. The
> >> >domain
> >> > controllers are replicating correctly as I am able to add/change user
> >> > account
> >> > information from any controller and it propagates to all domain
> >> > controllers.
> >> > However, when the SBS 2000 server is down it wont let anyone log onto
> >> > the
> >> > network and gives an error message about the domain controller not be
> >> > found....
> >> >
> >> > Shouldn't the other domain controllers allow users to login even if the
> >> > SBS
> >> > 2000 server is down? What do I need to do to resolve this problem?...
> >>
> >>
> >>
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