What SP level are you at? I remember when I was working at a "big bank" we used to have this issue on certain DC's and it was escalated quite high within MS and was never fully resolved but it was something to do with RDP/TS remote admin - please excuse my vagueness but it was 4 years ago. Under SP3 it was terrible - SP4 it was bearable - some totally unrelated KB which had a snippet ie can also cause this - resolved the issue.
If I can find my old Black and Red for that period, I will let you know the KB.
Mark
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From: "Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA" <Nathaniel.Bahta (AT) WPAFB (DOT) AF.MIL>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:47:50
To:<ActiveDir (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
Yes, it sure is.
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From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf Mark Parris
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
Is the box a windows 2000 box and it just sits at the windows 2000 blue screen - totally pingable but doing nothing else?
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From: "Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA" <Nathaniel.Bahta (AT) WPAFB (DOT) AF.MIL>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:47:15
To:<ActiveDir (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org>
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
No we cant rdp into the box when it * We have tools that do everything from NetIQ Application manager to HP to Ethereal, but if I get here in the morning, and I want to do a quick functions check of the system, I will need a compilation of tools that can test things up and down the SI model, and then I will probably parse through that output for sucesses and * Much like the eventcomb tool that takes a list of systems and parses through their event logs and pulls out things I would want to see, its lightweight and gives me only what I request.
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Nate
From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf neil.ruston (AT) uk (DOT) nomura.com
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 11:07 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
You can't ask that, coz that'd be troubleshooting :-^
From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf Wyatt, David
Sent: 04 August 2006 15:32
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
Are you able to RDP to the DC when it "hangs"?
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From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA
Sent: 04 Aug 2006 14:36
To: ActiveDir (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
Its not for troubleshooting, its so we can tell when the DC is hung, you cant tell when its hung because our monitoring software only pings by ip and it * If it replies, I know it can serve ldap queries, and then i can rpc ping it and make sure that authentication requests will be * Its just to do a quick check of whats going on first thing in the morning.
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Nate
From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf neil.ruston (AT) uk (DOT) nomura.com
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:14 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
So you ldap ping the DC and it replies or it does not. What does this tell you? How does it help troubleshoot the issue?
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I'd suggest more detailed tools are needed such as network / packet sniffers etc. They should be able to build a picture of the situation better than a ping which offers little more than a 'yes/no' response.
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My 2 penneth :)
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neil
From: ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org] Behalf Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA
Sent: 04 August 2006 13:54
To: ActiveDir (AT) mail (DOT) activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP Ping
Hey all,
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Does anyone know of a command line utility that allows you to test ldap connections?* We have a dc that hangs, but remains pingable and I would like to do ldap pings to it to as well as rpc * I know about the rpc ping utility, but I wanted to test for ldap connectivity as * Does anyone know of a utility like this?
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Thanks,
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Nate
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