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PDC no longer sees BDC

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by cranflake

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We moved NT sever PDC to different physical location and different IP address. Everyone can communicate with PDC. PDC can ping BDC. In PDC Server Manager if you click on BDC you get message "The network path was not found."

How do I make PDC see BDC again and continue synchronizing users?

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by mgonzales

I'm assuming that they are on two differnt IP subnets...I have in the past confgured WINS on both subnets and then configured PUSH/PULL for WINS. That way information about domain controllers and that could be shared between the subnets. If this is not an option than I would recommend a LMHOST files on the Domain Controllers that have the Server names preloaded and defined as the file specifies. The instructions could be found in the files itself. Do a search for the file and you want the one in the etc folder. Also if you make any changes to this file it has an extension of SAM. Make sure you take that off. The file should have no extension.

Good Luck!

by cranflake

Thanks Michael. I couldn't enable WINS on the PDC because it is now a public domain server. I used the LMHOSTS file on the PDC and the BDC and it's working fine.

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