I'm on a domain that I can't control the domain controllers on, but I can control my systems. All the domain controllers are part of one site, and that cannot change.
However, one of the domain controllers is not working correctly and the admins in charge of it are taking forever to resolve the issue. There are 6 total domain controllers… for some reason my workstations/servers are still attempting to use the bad one to authenticate my users.
Is there a way to force a workstation to use specific domain controllers? or, better yet, force it to NOT use the bad one?
Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
I've never done it, but supposedly you could use the #PRE tag in the lmhosts file on each workstation to set the preferred domain controller back in NT 4.0 days. Not sure if it still works, but it's worth a try. You can read about it at Microsoft Technet here under the "Specifying Domain Controllers" section. Make sure to reboot after lmhost changes.
Take a look at that entire document. That has more about lmhosts files in it than I ever wanted to know.