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by trevor.hasenkamp

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In our company we had a PDC and a BDC both running Windows NT Server 4.0. Recently we upgraded the PDC to Windows 2000 with Active Directory. The BDC is still running 4.0. The problem we have is that every now and again some users are getting an error message stating that "the domain password is not correct or the domain controller can not be contacted." The problem seems to be happening with the Windows 98 users and not Windows 2000. This has happened to several users and with the last user we had to upgrade to 2000 because with 98 the system would only login sometimes taking up to 8 or 9 attempts. We tried different network cards, cable, connection and multiple login IDs.

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by bejon.parsinia

Some food for thought, you may want to consider eliminating all of your 98 clients if possible. I've found that logins aren't the most reliable in Win2K Server from 9x clients myself.

Unfortunately, 98 does not handle hosts or lmhosts files well either. But, you can try and enter the PDC and BDC information into those files to assist you with your user logins. If they have static IP's (which PDC's and BDC's really should), this may lend you some assistance.

Since user logins tend to be broadcast based (at least initially), pointing the clients in the right direction may be the ticket.

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