"sean" wrote in message
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Greetings,

Let me start with that I have read the previous thread about this message
and DNS needing to be pointed at the AD DC only, also I have verified this
on
my network and it is the case. According to all the other threads and
other
web postings I've read, they give the same resolution, but in my case, it
doesn't seem to be it. The AD DC is the only DNS server on this network
and
it is pointing to iself for DNS with hints to fall back on and it hands
out
the info to the clients via DHCP, where they receive the only DNS info is
the
AD DC, but I still get the "please wait...." that can be stopped for the
moment with the three finger salute. Any suggestions where I should look
next. Also, this is happening on only a few machines from one source Ghost
image.

Thanks


Here's some additional info on how to test the DNS configuration
on the problem machines.

This will test if the machine can find the records in DNS.

Do an ipconfig /all and see what DNS servers are listed.
It should only be the internal DNS servers which host the
domain's records, not an external ISP's DNS server.

Then test the DNS lookup like this:

Go to a command prompt.
Type "nslookup".
Then type "set type=all"
Then type "_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.domainname
(where domainname is the name of your domain).

Nslookup returns one or more SRV service location records in the following
format:

hostname.domainname internet address = ipaddress

where 'hostname' is the host name of a domain controller, 'domainname' is
the
domain to which the domain controller belongs, and ipaddress is the domain
controller's Internet Protocol (IP) address.

Then 'exit' will quit you out of nslookup.

Here's a screen-dump of me doing this on an XP machine joined to my domain,
"homenet.local.":

C:\Documents and Settings\Ron.HOMENETnslookup
Default Server: homenetdc01.homenet.local
Address: 81.187.191.78

( Check that the IP address of the DNS server being queried is correct.
You may get a warning if it can't reverse lookup the name of the default
server, this is sloppy but non-fatal. )

set type=all
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.homenet.local.
Server: homenetdc01.homenet.local
Address: 81.187.191.78

_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.homenet.local SRV service location:
priority = 0
weight = 100
port = 389
svr hostname = homenetdc01.homenet.local
homenetdc01.homenet.local internet address = 81.187.191.78
exit

Do you get the same?


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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking