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RAS Authenticates with OLD Password

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by susu

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I have an NT domain with a PDC and two BDC's. One of the BDC's is also a RAS server.

I am having an issue where one of my users was unable to authenticate over RAS. After many attempts to solve the issue, she tried entering her previous password.Strangely enough, this worked.

It seems that the RAS Server/BDC is not in sync with the rest of the domain. I have synchronized the domain and this BDC but it doesn't seem to help.

Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone have any suggestions?

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by baadil

Check the event viewer and see if the BDC actually did synch with PDC. Also, make a change to any account on the RAS server and then Synch, this way you can see if the change was send to PDC or not.

HTH

by susu

The event viewer says that the synchronization was completed.

I did a little test and I changed an account on the PDC. Before it had a chance to sync, I opened user manager on the RAS server. When I looked at the account, I saw the changes I had made.

This seems to suggest that User Manager always points to the PDC. If this is so, how do I determine if the account info on the BDC is different from that on the PDC?

by baadil

Hi,

The easierst way to check your replication is to make a change on the RAS and then test it on the PDC or any other machine. Try the following:
Login to RAS server
Change the password.
Stop the login service on the RAS server.
Try logging in using this account on a different machine.
See which password works, old or the new one. Also try this after you synch the RAS server with PDC.

HTH.

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