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BDC failing to logon member clients

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by rgrowcock

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I have an older computer that acts as both a BDC and print server. As a print server it works fine, but as a BDC it doesn't. Any computer that has this BDC as the main "logonserver" fails to log into the network. The only function of this computer is to backup my main PDC and to act as a secondary print server. I have a couple of printers directly connected to this computer, not networked and it seems to work fine.

My problem, or maybe my solution is to just replace this old and slow machine, PII350 256MB, with a little newer one, K6-2 336 256MB. I believe this older BDC computer is just about ready to "give up the ghost" and I don't want to be caught behind the eight ball. Anyone have any other thoughts that I should consider before going ahead with the replacement?

The current machine is getting slower and slower every day, regardless of the restarts. For the most part, nothing is done on this computer, other than the above mentioned tasks.

Thanks for any input. Roger

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by joseph moore

Try one thing first: modify the LMHOSTS file on the BDC, setting up an entry pointing to the PDC. Reboot after that, and see if it works any better.
Technet article Q180094 talks about the LMHOSTS file. The article says to put in 2 lines in the LMHOSTS file; I think you only need to put in the first one, which assigns the IP address of the PDC to its machine name. You don't need the domain name resolution line.
Here is the URL on the article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180094
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

by rgrowcock

Tried this, but in the end I am going with a new computer to take this one's place. Thanks for the thoughts.

by gigelul

Maybe command, from Server Manager help you.
NT help:
Synchronization is usually done automatically by the system, but if the domain directory database on a computer running Windows?NT Server becomes unsynchronized or if a backup domain controller is unable to establish network connections due to password failure, use this manual method to correct the situation.

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