Hi, We have an issue for 2 weeks now that we cannot solved. We have a site where they have a local Windows domain running on a Windows Server 2003. We were asked to install a new server for running Remote Desktop Services. The new server was installed and his running Windows Server 2012 R2.
If this new server is on the network but not joined on the domain we can PING the domain.local name and also the IP address just fine. NSLOOKUP is also working fine.
Once we joined this new server on the domain we can no longer PING the domain.local. NSLOOKUP still work thought. If we tried to configured anything related to the domain like adding user or configuring the Remote Desktop services we get the error "no logon server".
Since we were able to ping the domain.local name when not joined we've removed the server from the Domain. Again we were able to ping the domain.local. Even though the DNS work fine we've edited the host file to point the domain.local to the right IP. I've put a mix of Upper and lower case in the name so when i now ping the domain name i can see that the IP is resolved from the host file. We've then joined again the server on the domain and try to ping. Again it's not working. Always the same message "Ping request could not find host".
DCDIAG is running fine on the domain server. No error message. Firewall has been turned off. DNS are configured to point to the DNS server which is also the Active Directory server. Server was formatted re-installed 3 times already.
Anyone know what could be the problem ? Also can someone explain me how usually a computer on a domain resolve the IP for the domain.local name ? I though it was with DNS but from our test the DNS work when not joined on the domain. Also the host file seems to be used only when not joined on the domain which make no sense to me.
Thanks,