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[mitchell1981]

Not sure what is going on here, but before when we typed in:

\\domainname\

We would be presented with the domain shares, Netlogon and Sysvol.

 

Now it doesn't work. It just says the network path was not found.

 

If we specify one of the shares such as: \\domainname\sysvol it works fine.

 

Pinging the domain name returns one of the domain controllers as it should.

 

Also, if we put in any of the domain controllers: \\dc01\ it works and shows the shares.

 

Does anyone know how the domain share itself is configured and how I check it? It appears to be breaking some of our group policy scripts.

[Fazza]

Not seen the issue before myself but it sounds like a possible DNS issue so that might be a starting point for you.

[bald_pig]

Are you using the fqdn?

[mitchell1981]

Yes, have been using the FQDN. It seems very odd to me that everything works as expected apart from going direct to the domain name. Can't see anything obviously wrong in DNS but will keep looking.

[mtillbrook]

sounds like a DNS issue. Try and ping your domain name from CMD and see what you get? You should be able to ping domainname.local and get a responce back from a domain controller.

 

If you don't get anything then your DNS is not well!