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User not allowed to log into BDC

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by lori wagoner

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We have 2 users on a segment of our network that originally had to go through a T1 line to log into the domain at our Corporate offices.

Recently, we were able to install a BDC on their segment of the network (same domain as the one at Corporate).

When these users log in, the don't have access to the network mapped drives. They can get to them eventually through the Network Neighborhood, but it's causing me unhappy users.

When you view the event viewer of the BDC, it has an Event ID 533 Logon Failure - User not allowed to logon at this computer. These users have always been a part of this domain. The BDC has the same settings that all other BDC's and the PDC have.

Any suggestions?

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by craig it mangaer

Make sure your servers are synchronizing. Could be that if the problem started after a password change that all the servers are not validating to the same password for the user.

by jvohs

What are you using to resolve netbios? If you are using WINS make sure the new server has the same primary and secondary WINS as the rest of the network. Can you ping the server? How about start run \\computername?
Do you get a challenge response, or "network path not found? Test the secure channel on that BDC. Do a netstat -an, do you see all of the services registered? Do you see all the same netbios names as the other BDC's minus of course any service's not running on one machine or the other? Q119495 lists the Netbios names that Windows registers.

by lori wagoner

We had been pointing the DHCP server on that segment to a WINS server here. We determined that that segment needed it's own WINS server.

Once this was set up, this fixed the problem.

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