Losing Active Directory Connection

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Chris

I'm experiencing a problem about once a week where our file server is
losing the connection to AD. We are running Windows 2003 Sp1 as the
domain controller, users are a mix of Windows XP and 2000. Users can
login and I usually don't know about the problem until someone tries to
print and can't. All the networked printers show errors and if I try to
access Users and Computers I receive a messgage that there is no
connection to AD. I have been looking for a solution for a while and
can't find anything. Any suggestions? The only way to recover is to
restart the server.

Thanks,

Chris
 
Chris said:
I'm experiencing a problem about once a week where our file server is
losing the connection to AD. We are running Windows 2003 Sp1 as the
domain controller, users are a mix of Windows XP and 2000. Users can
login and I usually don't know about the problem until someone tries to
print and can't. All the networked printers show errors and if I try to
access Users and Computers I receive a messgage that there is no
connection to AD. I have been looking for a solution for a while and
can't find anything. Any suggestions? The only way to recover is to
restart the server.
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Ensure you 'server' does NOT list any external DNS
servers on its NIC->IP properties (for any NICs.)

That is, it must list STRICTLY the internal DNS server
set.

This is really true of all internal "DNS Clients" -- even
the DCs themselves.

If you are still having trouble post your IPConfig /all
results AND your results from NSlookup explicit test
while the problem is occurring.

Paste the ACTUAL text into the message; do NOT re-type
it and do NOT paste in a graphic.
 
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