Hi All,
I've got a problem with a server at a charity I volunteer at, where it appears one on the DCs at one of their remote site was shut down on the button.
The following day, the server involved started complaining about a target account being incorrect when a user was trying to access a share. I went through the logs and found the credentials that the servers use to communicate was skewed. The cure, it turned out was "netdom resetpwd" run on the server from a remote DC. All of a sudden, DNS pops up and things seem to be working again.
Following morning, I get a call from one of the other offices complaining that they can't access shares on the server in their building. So, log in, same error. Go to the first server that broke (server 2016) run netdom reset and it fails with:
The machine account password for the local machine could not be reset.
The target account name is incorrect.
The command failed to complete successfully.
So, go to another DC - same, another - same, finally, last DC in the organisation succeeds, and all the errors in the log on the 2nd server disappear and DNS comes back up.
So, try to access the shares on the second server from the others in the organisation and get the same error about target accounts. Go to the server that succeeded in the netdom passwrd reset and that one opens all the shares on the second server. So, somewhere along the line, AD seems to got out of sync.
I've tried syncing and on all the servers, it return sync completed with no errors, but they don't seem to getting along. There are no errors logged in event viewer which seems odd and aside from the share access, everything appears to be fine.
Could someone please point in the best direction for getting these boxes talking to each other again. There are three dcs which work fine (sharewise) together but won't talk to the other two, and the other two which work fine with each other but won't talk to the other 3.
If you want log or dcdiag outputs, please let me know the parameters and I'll post the result.
Thanks,
Jools