{"id":765,"date":"2011-05-27T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:31:22","slug":"netdiag-failed-dns-test-redir-and-browser-test-dc-list-test-kerberos-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2011\/05\/27\/netdiag-failed-dns-test-redir-and-browser-test-dc-list-test-kerberos-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Netdiag Failed (DNS test, Redir and Browser test, DC list test, Kerberos test)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Windows Server 2003 has been with us a while I can across this issue recently. This only because most of the 2003 domain controller installations I had seen were 32bit. But recently I found a domain that had a mixture of 32bit and 64bit domain controllers.<\/p>\n<p>You run <strong>netdiag<\/strong> on your Windows 2003 64bit domain controller and get many failures like the ones bellow:<\/p>\n<p><em>DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed<br \/>\n[FATAL] Could not open file C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\config\\netlogon.dns for reading.<br \/>\n[FATAL] No DNS servers have the DNS records for this DC registered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Redir and Browser test . . . . . . : Failed<br \/>\nList of NetBt transports currently bound to the Redir<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed<br \/>\nFailed to enumerate DCs by using the browser. [ERROR_NO_BROWSER_SERVERS_FOUND]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kerberos test. . . . . . . . . . . : Failed<br \/>\n[FATAL] Cannot lookup package Kerberos.<br \/>\nThe error occurred was: (null)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before you start diagnosing what the problem is check that <strong>netdiag<\/strong> that you are running is a correct version. It is very common that 32bit <strong>netdiag <\/strong>version is running on 64bit OS.<\/p>\n<p>On the machine find <strong>netdiag.exe. <\/strong>If it is located in <em>Program files(x86)<\/em> folder then most likely it is the wrong version. Locate your Windows 2003 x64 installation CD browse to <em>\\SUPPORT\\TOOLS<\/em> open the <strong>support.cab<\/strong> file there you\u2019ll find <strong>netdiag.exe<\/strong>. Extract and run it. All the errors that you&#8217;ve seen before should be gone.<br \/>\nThere is no easy way to distinguish between 32bit and 64bit versions of <strong>netdiag. <\/strong>The file versions are the same the only difference is the size. 64bit version is ~100KB bigger. In my case 32bit version is 381KB and 64bit 489KB<br \/>\nAlso on Microsoft Download Center you can only download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?FamilyID=96a35011-fd83-419d-939b-9a772ea2df90&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 32-bit Support Tools<\/a> and although it states that it runs on Windows Server 2003 x64, the version of <strong>netdiag.exe<\/strong> included is 32bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Windows Server 2003 has been with us a while I can across this issue recently. This only because most of the 2003 domain controller installations I had seen were 32bit. But recently I found a domain that had a mixture of 32bit and 64bit domain controllers. You run netdiag on your Windows 2003 64bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}