zhardoum
7th May 2001, 16:11
hmm,
As the more astute amongst you on here will know I have been doing battle with a mixed language / mixed server environment.
The battle still rages, and it appears the other side has the upper hand, and is about to beat me to a pulp with a dns error in my backside and a controller failure between the eyes.
Win2k PDC, 2 Nt4 BDC´s..
a pletheroe of standalones, a sco-unix box, a netware 4.11 server,
mixed workstations, 2k, nt4, 98, 95 etc..
Now, suddenly late last week the PDC suddenly without warning believes it is on a different domain from all the other machines, and won´t allow any logons at all. even from the BDC´s. Even though the domain name is the same for all.
The Bdc´s can not now join the domain, with an error that the bdc´s already exist on the domain, and that a sid error has occurred and it is necessary to reinstall the OS on the domain (yes you read right, necesary to reinstall the os on the domain, server I could understand, but domain?).
The PDC sits there quite happy, but in server manager all the other machines are greyed out, even though they share the same domain name.(and that is with or without show only domain members).
on the BDC´s the PDC is greyed out.
The users can not access most servers now, each hour more people loose network access, once logged out, they cannot log in.
The PDC is sitting as smug as a smug thing can, the first bdc is having an error log fit, spewing out every error known to man, and the other bdc (which is the exchnage server) has run away screaming, and is now sitting in a corner unable to authenticate with anyone, even itself, and is looking very miserable, (having now lost the entire companies email since last thursday)
The unix box, is having a field day, opening and closing access rights as it sees fit, and the netware box decided half an hour ago to completely ceases any print jobs at all.
I believe the coffee machine may be working but is showing signs of falling to the dark side to.
The site has the latest virus defence across all the servers and workstations, and until last week, the battle was nearly won, with it taking less than 1 min from boot to logged in state.
On friday it took over an hour for users to authenticate, now it just doesnt let people in at all.
and occasionally boots an existing user off with no warning just for the hell of it.
To rectify this, I am faced with finding the problem, before I can fix it, or wipe the lot, 9 servers, 1win2k, 6Nt, 1 sco, 1 netware, what joy..
having been delving into this since wednesday pm, I still haven´t found the route cause yet, but i believe active directory may be lurking in the darkness ready to cut my throat the second i blink the wrong way.
Including the fact that to wipe the lot will involve closing the entire office for a week, whilst i rebuild like mad.
Oh the joys of computing.
It was going so well, really solid performance and then explicabily for some reason things started playing funny buggers.
Times like this I wish I was an accountant.
or a pr exec!
As the more astute amongst you on here will know I have been doing battle with a mixed language / mixed server environment.
The battle still rages, and it appears the other side has the upper hand, and is about to beat me to a pulp with a dns error in my backside and a controller failure between the eyes.
Win2k PDC, 2 Nt4 BDC´s..
a pletheroe of standalones, a sco-unix box, a netware 4.11 server,
mixed workstations, 2k, nt4, 98, 95 etc..
Now, suddenly late last week the PDC suddenly without warning believes it is on a different domain from all the other machines, and won´t allow any logons at all. even from the BDC´s. Even though the domain name is the same for all.
The Bdc´s can not now join the domain, with an error that the bdc´s already exist on the domain, and that a sid error has occurred and it is necessary to reinstall the OS on the domain (yes you read right, necesary to reinstall the os on the domain, server I could understand, but domain?).
The PDC sits there quite happy, but in server manager all the other machines are greyed out, even though they share the same domain name.(and that is with or without show only domain members).
on the BDC´s the PDC is greyed out.
The users can not access most servers now, each hour more people loose network access, once logged out, they cannot log in.
The PDC is sitting as smug as a smug thing can, the first bdc is having an error log fit, spewing out every error known to man, and the other bdc (which is the exchnage server) has run away screaming, and is now sitting in a corner unable to authenticate with anyone, even itself, and is looking very miserable, (having now lost the entire companies email since last thursday)
The unix box, is having a field day, opening and closing access rights as it sees fit, and the netware box decided half an hour ago to completely ceases any print jobs at all.
I believe the coffee machine may be working but is showing signs of falling to the dark side to.
The site has the latest virus defence across all the servers and workstations, and until last week, the battle was nearly won, with it taking less than 1 min from boot to logged in state.
On friday it took over an hour for users to authenticate, now it just doesnt let people in at all.
and occasionally boots an existing user off with no warning just for the hell of it.
To rectify this, I am faced with finding the problem, before I can fix it, or wipe the lot, 9 servers, 1win2k, 6Nt, 1 sco, 1 netware, what joy..
having been delving into this since wednesday pm, I still haven´t found the route cause yet, but i believe active directory may be lurking in the darkness ready to cut my throat the second i blink the wrong way.
Including the fact that to wipe the lot will involve closing the entire office for a week, whilst i rebuild like mad.
Oh the joys of computing.
It was going so well, really solid performance and then explicabily for some reason things started playing funny buggers.
Times like this I wish I was an accountant.
or a pr exec!