[WinMac] BDC will not release clients

Michael Bolton(Michael.Bolton[at]Colorado.EDU)
Mon, 10 May 1999 22:00:54 -0500

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I installed a Back-up Domain Server having been told of the lengthy process
required to restore (or is it just reinstall) a domain if the PDC goes
down. Ever since then a number of machines cannot log on to the domain when
the BDC is not turned on, even if the Primary Domain Controller is fully
present.

I've tried singling out the BDC to synchronize and I've tried
synschronizing the whole domain, neither of which has brought success. It
seems as if the BDC is acting like it's some kind of specialized controller
for a handful of machines - they no longer care whether or not the PDC is
there, they pine for the BDC:) Client machines will even refuse to print to
a locally networked printer without the BDC being on.

So, in my effort to find the problem and fix it I visited the Win-Mac
Archives and Dan says don't make a BDC during work hours. I think I
transgressed that rule. What are my options now? And, in my own defence,
why should one have to shutdown all the client workstations just to install
a support for the primary server? Is it only me who thinks that's a little
draconian?

Thanks in advance for your help and sympathy.

Michael

Michael Bolton
Assistant to the Director
Environmental Health and Safety
CB 375
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-3721

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