Gazza wrote:
I hope someone can help with a strange problem.

I have a windows 2003Std dc running ad and dns supporting about 20
users running winXP pro and am having severe issues when it comesx to
user logons.

When i tried to logon to the server from a client pc the logon seemed
to take forever and when it did eventually logon an error popped up
saying that they couldnt access there desktop(stored on the server as
a roaming profile(server\profiles) and folder
redirection(server\Users).

This has been working perfectly for about 2 years now and has just
suddenly stopped working.

I have checked dns on the server and all is well, the clients have the
server set as there primary dns server.

I am able to logon to the domain at the server and also connect to the
internet at the server but cannot do either at the client Pc`s.

I have run dcdiag and netdiag and there are no errors.

I can ping the server by IP address and name from the client pc`s and
can also connect to the administrative share (c$) on the server from
the clients.

Don`t know what else to try so am looking to the experts for help.

Thanks in advance
Gareth

Hi - if you post an unedited ipconfig /all from the DC and from a
workstation, it will help.

I note that you've mentioned "primary" DNS server - this indicates you've
got DNS configuration problems. Your internal DNS server should be the
*only* one the clients (pr server itself) specifies. No public IPs should be
present in an ipconfig /all from a server or workstation. You will have a
slew of unpredictable problems with AD if your DNS isn't set up properly.