My company is split across two sites with a PDC at one site and a BDC at the other.
Users at the site with the PDC have no problem carrying out monthly password changes, however those at the site with the BDC are not able to do so at all. They receive the standard MS error message “Unable to change the password for Microsoft Networking because of the following error: The domain controller for this domain cannot be found”
However, the Domain controller must have been found in order to request a password change surely!
On checking the PDC we established syncronisation between PDC and BDC is taking place. We can take users to the BDC and change passwords there. Why then can we not complete this transaction on the users client PC.A note also. We are using the lmhosts file to establish a link at the BDC site to connect to the PDC (which is additionally a file server for Company information). Does this need re-scripting in some way to resolve the issue? Answers would be greatly received.
