We have a 2 domain environment. We were having issues with slow connections, authentication failures, and hung resources only during OFF-PEAK hours when there were very few users logged on. The issue occurred when a user from DOMAIN A is accessing a resource located on DOMAIN B and is using [...] read more
We currently have a NAC server set up to authenticate against a Samba4 AD using the ntlm_auth utility and would like to make it more tolerant to network outages. Currently, when the NAC loses connectivity to the Samba4 Active Directory, every login attempt fails. This situation used to be acceptable [...] read more
We are currently facing an interesting issue with regard to Kerberos authentication. The goal is to publish a website over the internet. The authentication needs to be handled from end-to-end by Kerberos in an Active Directory-environment. The client PCs, however, may or may not be domain-joined. The files of the [...] read more
I have a site on IIS that uses windows auth for logins and it works 99% of the time. But on some days there will be a period of time where logging in just won't work for around 30 minutes, it keeps popping up the prompt. In event viewer under [...] read more
Situation: Co-located DCs connected by T1 to client working location. The T1 is averaging at about 2/3 usage. All 1 Active Directory. I am trying to deploy a start-up script to clients at the working location though GPO. It seems to work on some computers and not on others, but [...] read more
Recently we had a power outage that was greater than 2 hours. We had to shutdown 8 out of 9 servers. I left 1 server, server6, running because it hosts web services we need 24/7. Once the power was back on, I tried to boot server1 and server2 first, considering [...] read more