Re: Domain AUthentication Timeout Issue

From: Jonathan (news_at_robson-gb.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:34:06 -0500

No, I only have the PDC in there. The DNS is sent from the DHCP server thus
I configured it to send the PDC address for DNS, same for WINS I also
ensured I only have one dhcp server running which is the PDC.

Thanks for the help though anyway.

Cheers
Jonathan

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
news:u1cqtPqiEHA.212@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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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