I could do with some advice from anyone who knows anything about Domains on Windows Server 2003, as I am pretty weak when it comes to domains.
We have a small network of about 8 Windows 2003 servers, one of which is a Primary Domain controller, and two others are secondary backup Domain Controllers.
Recently, and becoming more frequent of late, one or two of the other servers have had account login issues, where when you try and remote desktop login to any account (including Administrator), I get the error message "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your system administrator for assistance". This login failure occurs when logging into the domain (iether directly on the machine or by remote desktop), AND unusualy also when logging into "(this machine"). Whatsmore, there are some scheduled tasks that obviously require a login account, these are also failing and continue to fail once this error occurs.
Basicaly when this happens, its impossible to login on any account on this machine, be it local or in the domain, yet I can still access shared folders and mapped drives remotely on it, so it is not in a totaly unusable state. The only way I can get in is by doing a forced reboot by holding in the power button, after which the machine works straight away.
The servers that are domain controllers seem fine, have not crashed, and other servers on the domain can still log in without issue.
Anyone come accross this type of problem before ?
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