active directory not working in windows 2000 professional

[tainguyen]

I had admin tool installed on my workstation. and I used MMC Console to manage remotely. i have no problem connect to the server and manage dns, dhcp... except for active directory. when i try to connect to the server it gave me the message says: server is not operational...
my tcp/ip filtering is set to permit all.
and I am frustrated with this problem since active directory is the only tool that I can use to create users remotely.
please help me

 

[doomhamur]

Hi, the first step is to make sure your PC is actually loging on to AD and not useing cached credentials. try to ping the fdqn of the AD controller. If you can, go to the DC and see when the last time your machine loged in is.

Check the DNS and Directory services logs on the DC and the system logs on your machine to see if there are errors.

Remeber that if the ip address of your DNS server is not the first one in the list, AD logon will have problems.

yahoo IM me if you would like, i could probably be of more help that way Doomhamur
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