Calin,
You mentioned that you're seeing the error in the event log. Are you able
to login with domain credentials, or are you logging in locally?
If you're able to login with domain credentials, go to a command prompt and
run "Set" then look to see what the logonserver value is.
Also, if you're able to do it, here is what I would do if I were on-site:
1. Plug a hub (not a switch) in between the problem computer and the DC's.
2. Plug in another computer on that hub and install network monitor or
ethereal (ethereal is best if you don't have access to netmon3)
3. Run the network analyzer on the monitoring computer while rebooting the
XP Client and logging in.
4. After the failure or successful login, stop the capture (make sure it's
got a big enough buffer ~10MB so you don't lose any data)
5. Look at the traffic coming from the client, see who it's contacting for
DNS, what referrals it's getting and where it's going.
From that information I can usually deduce what's going on.
If you can't put something like that together or can and don't see the
solution, let us know.
--
Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA
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Tester said:
Hi Mike,
Unix DNS from head office across the Wan, good link, local office NT4
domain with NT4/W2K/XP clients machine about 10 PCs.
Calin
"Mike Shepperd" <newsgroups a t sunfiresolutions d o t com> wrote in
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Do you have an internal DNS server? Are all of your machines pointed to it?
Tell us more about the network configuration and DNS setup.
--
Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA
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Tester said:
Hi there,
I am receiving a lot of messages 5719 in system viewer on an XP machine
on an NT4 domain that no domain controller is available; there are
currently
no logon servers to service the login request. Make sure the machine is
connected to the network.
Machine is brand new Dell and domain has about 10 machines, NT4, W2K ,
XP-this is the first one
Although I have a PDC and a BDC for an NT4 domain.
Thank you,Calin
