DC communication problem

[gibo]

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Hi,
I am having some major problems with my PDC. Background:
3 Domain controllers running Windows 2003 server
1 local and two across WAN in different countries.

Up to recently everything in the garden was rosey!! Now when i go to my
exchange 2003 server ( non-DC) and open Active Directory Users and
Computers it connects to a DC across the WAN and takes ages to open. I
know replicating should occur and everything should be fine but it is
not. When i check "echo &logonserver% on different machines, none
except the exchange server point to the local DC. I am also getting
many problems in exchange with some users intermittently not being able
to recieve mail but can send!!! A reboot of exchange fixes this.

I have run dcdiag and netdiag and all run fine with no errors.

Can i force the PDC to answer first or what is wrong with my PDC???

Basically i am forced to reboot the exchange server every other day or
so when the issue occurs. This is obviously far from ideal...

Any help is gratefully recieved!
Thanks in advance,
Martin

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory (More info?)

As far as opening up Active Directory Users and Computers-
I can help you there. If you open it up from the command line or "run"
you can specify (with a switch) what dc you want to connect to. The
command is:

dsa.msc /server=yourservername.yourdomain.com

(create a shortcut on your desk top if you don't want to type it in
everytime)

Check out * Article ID : 214676 * on Microsoft's site for more info.


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