Fellow Experts:
I am currently managing a few fairly small military networks. On one of my networks, I have an NT 4.0 domain set up with one PDC and one BDC. The domain controllers had some issues and were seperated briefly. The problem now is that the PDC does not trust the BDC. Directory replication still occurs from the PDC and one can add / change users, etc on the PDC. However, it is not possible to add users from the BDC. It generates the error "There is no user session key for the specified logon session". Also, errors 3210 and 7023 are present in the event log.
This problem and resolution is described in Technet Article Q153719 "How to Re-Sync PDC/BDC Trust After Event IDs 3210 and 7023". Basically, the password-protected channel has been broken and the account associated with the BDC's computer name (BDC$) is lo longer listed with the PDC. However, the suggested resolution of renaming the computer name (even temporarily) is not feasible as the system is also an Exchange 5.5 server.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how one might readd the computer name to the PDC (possibly a third party tool) so that we will not require a full rebuild of the NT Server and Exchange? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Herb
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Geoffry:
Thanks for the feedback. Actually, both netdom and nltest indicated that the secure channel was still valid. However, the BDC can still not add users or complete similar tasks and presents the error "There is no user session key for the specified logon session." Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Herb
Hey!
I cloned some Windows 2000 machines using Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition, and when I attempt to join the NT 4 domain I consistently get the above error. I forgot to make sure that the SID was different, I did not use sysprep or Ghostwalker, but afterwards I used the NewSID tool from sysinternals.com. I also deleted machine account in PDC, restarted and recreated. I also tried naming the new computers to a completely new name not present in the Server Manager. BDC is almost always offline and is brought back up every few weeks or so. After spending two days, finally your comment "check teh time" solved m problem.
My time was set to GMT, apparently it doesn't affect machines which have already joined the domain, but affects the new machines joining the domain!
Thanks amigo!
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by: geoffrynPosted on 2002-04-22 at 09:30:29ID: 6960428
Have you tried manually resetting the secure channel?
http://support.microsoft.c