Re: Domain AUthentication Timeout Issue

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/25/04


Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:03:18 -0500

In news:U4udndGFho0eGbHcRVn-oA@comcast.com,
Jonathan <news@robson-gb.com> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> Hi There,
>
> I have a small network setup with 2 PC's, and a Windows
> Server 2003 server. The Win2K3 machine is a PDC,
> everything works fine as regards the domain, the client
> machines can login ok, they can get to shared drives,
> print to the shared printer etc etc.
>
> The problem occurs after about 8 hours, the client
> machines seem to lose domain authenticity which manifests
> itself in the client machine not being able to view
> shared drives or print on the shared printer. The only
> remedy I've found is to log out on the client and back
> in, everything is fine for another 8 hours or so.
>
> I have seen many posts on the subject but never found
> anything that pinpointed the issue. I have also tried
> many recommendations including setting the PDC as the
> main DNS server, WINs server and DHCP server - its all of
> those right now. Still it doesn't work.

Do you have your ISP's DNS in TCP/IP properties anywhere, in any position on
any client NIC?
If you do remove it, even if you only have one DNS address you cannot use an
external DNS that does not hold the zone for the AD domain.

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