Site Replication problem

[vincelewin]

Hi,

I have a parent domain and under that a child.

The parent comprises of two 2003 DC's and the child of five DC's. I have added a site and placed two servers in this site, one is a parent domain dc and the other is an additional child DC.

The sites are connected via a dedicated 8M link and there is no firewall or filterin going on.

Basically my servers aren't replicating.

If I run portqry -p tcp -e 389 the command never completes.
If I run netdiag the command stops on "Testing Ldap servers in domain ******...."

My network admin is telling me the connection is fine which leads me to believe that there are permission errors.

My Parent DC offsite is also a DNS server which refuses to load dns because "The DNS server was unable to connect to the domain naming FSMO"

I believe this is all related to the ldap problem.

Can anyone help me?

Vince Lewin mcp, mcsa:m

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[pagy]

Is the domain naming master online?? On a DC do
netdom query fsmo, this will tell which server holds all the fsmo roles.

Anything in the event logs on the DCs?

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCSA 2003
MCITP Enterprise Administrator

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[allywilson]

Ensure you can actually connect across the link first (you had the right idea with portqry). I'm more familiar with nmap however so I would just go ahead and run that (be sure to inform your network admin though - if set to default it scans a LOT of ports).

 

[vincelewin]

Hi,

Yeah all FSMO roles are up and running all be it in a different site.

Event log holds errors relating to RPC timeout. I remember from my studies that the timeout can be adjusted on the site connections, but I have not done that yet.


Vince Lewin mcp, mcsa:m

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[pagy]

Any firewalls in the way??

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCSA 2003
MCITP Enterprise Administrator

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[vincelewin]

Well,

Cisco routers but I have been assured that there is no restriction on traffic between the sites.

Do you think it could be port blocking?



Vince Lewin mcp, mcsa:m

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[pagy]

Yeah it was just the RPC timeout bit you mentioned that made think it could be a firewall getting in the way.
Might be worth reading this and then double checking;

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727063.aspx

Also check your DNS is working as it should

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCSA 2003
MCITP Enterprise Administrator

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams