Child domains not finding global catalog
Last year I created a Windows 2000 forest containing a root domain and three child domains. Everything worked fine until about five months ago when none of the child domains could find the Global Catalog.
Although this allowed the child domains to find the GC did it really resolve my problem or just work around it? This may be related to a more serious problem I'll describe in another question.
Open a command prompt and type Ntdsutil (this requires that the Windows Support Tools have been installed from the CD). You get a NTDSUTIL: prompt. Now type…
Ntsdutil: roles fsmo maintenance: connections server connections: connect to server [servername of non-PDC emulator system] Connected to [servername] using credentials of locally logged on user. server connections: quit fsmo maintenance: Select operation target select operation target: List roles for connected serverThe output will be similar to this:
Server "myserver" knows about 5 roles Schema - CN=NTDS Settings,CN=MYSERVER2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN= Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=mydomain,DC=com Domain - CN=NTDS Settings,CN=MYSERVER2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN= Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=mydomain,DC=com PDC - CN=NTDS Settings,CN=MYSERVER,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Site s,CN=Configuration,DC=mydomain,DC=com RID - CN=NTDS Settings,CN=MYSERVER2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sit es,CN=Configuration,DC=mydomain,DC=com Infrastructure - CN=NTDS Settings,CN=MYSERVER,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-N ame,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=mydomain,DC=comPaul Hinsberg
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