Promote PDC question

[MQCarpenter]

After promoting a new PDC, some users sporadically get an "unable to find DC" error.

I noticed on some WINS settings, they have "enable LMHOSTS lookup" checked. I unchecked it and I was OK from then on.

Why would this be checked if there is no HOST file? and would that cause the error above? ------------------------

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[Stiddy]

Also have experienced this, after days of fighting machines with the problem I finally came to the conclusion to add a reg key. I had machines that could ping the PDC in >10ms, and using Lmhosts files that have the PDC listed in them. I would recieve this error when rebooting a machine and actually trying to Auto-logon to the machine to run some program upgrades.

Anyway, here is the reg key, maybe it will help.

RegDword
"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters[ExpectedDialupDelay]", 30)