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just to clarify - have you defined 3 separate sites in AD?<br />

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just to clarify - have you defined 3 separate sites in AD?


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Create a global catalog on each site.<br />
Open Active Directory Sites and Services, right click on NTDS settings for each server, properties &gt;&nbsp;check global catalog.<br />
This should stop your users logging on the firs DC of your domain, witch is the global catalog
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Create a global catalog on each site.
Open Active Directory Sites and Services, right click on NTDS settings for each server, properties > check global catalog.
This should stop your users logging on the firs DC of your domain, witch is the global catalog

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I have only one Site configured (Default First Site Name)<br />
I thought about the Global Catalog issue and did create one at each location, still no change.<br />
The logon does not always hit the same DC.
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I have only one Site configured (Default First Site Name)
I thought about the Global Catalog issue and did create one at each location, still no change.
The logon does not always hit the same DC.

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you need to define an AD site for each real 'site'. then you assign an ip subnet to the site, and put the DC in the site - this way a user will always try to login from their own site 
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you need to define an AD site for each real 'site'. then you assign an ip subnet to the site, and put the DC in the site - this way a user will always try to login from their own site

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I thought Sites were to define slow links?
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I thought Sites were to define slow links?

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I have a Windows 2000 Domain with four locations in 3 states all connected via 256K or better. A domain controller in each location and one AD Site. The problem is that most of my clients when logging on are hitting the DC at one of the other locations in stead of the one sitting on the same subnet. (in some cases the same room!) &nbsp;I can't seem to find out how to or why this happening or IF it is indeed a problem.<br />

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I have a Windows 2000 Domain with four locations in 3 states all connected via 256K or better. A domain controller in each location and one AD Site. The problem is that most of my clients when logging on are hitting the DC at one of the other locations in stead of the one sitting on the same subnet. (in some cases the same room!)  I can't seem to find out how to or why this happening or IF it is indeed a problem.


Windows Clients logon to remote DC

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.