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I'm currently the IT guy for my school's computer system, and I've officially ran into a problem that I just cannot solve on my own, and I'm really hoping you guys can help me out here.
It started a couple months ago. One of the computers said "There are currently no logon servers to service the logon request". I thought nothing of it, just a server error, it'd pass Then, a couple weeks later, a second one started doing it. I thought it was a little funny, but went about my business.
Then three computers started doing it. Then four. Then ten.
Within the span of a month every single computer started giving me that error, but ONLY that error. With my supervisors now fairly upset I started fervishly investigating the problem.
I called my server admins and asked if there was a problem on their end, they told me no. There isn't another room on campus having this problem. So I logged in to the local account, and I noticed that it now no longer thinks there's a driver for the ethernet port. However, when I try to install the driver, it says that there is no ethernet port on the computer.
Then, for some reason, I decided to reset the BIOS just as a last ditch effort. It worked! The computer could log on again! For about a week. Then it started doing it again. What's even stranger is that temporary fix doesn't work for all the computers. It'll work for about half of them, but the others don't even budge. They continue to give the error.
I'm begging you guys, can you give me some idea I haven't thought of yet?
you have a way to re-image these PCs? something's whacked out. I'd say you have a network problem, but the real common denominator could be they're all a bad image. – MDT Guy – 2014-03-05T21:07:35.603
Have you attempted to update group policy via
gpupdate /force
? – JSanchez – 2014-03-05T21:38:14.413Where is this error appearing, and what does it prevent connection to? Is this in an attempt to map a drive? What version of windows is involved? what other pieces of hardware/software (av/firewalls included)? Have you looked at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949048 or http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139410?
– MaQleod – 2014-03-05T22:06:06.030You should provide a wee bit more information. We need to know: (1) is your network on DHCP (2) have you tested your cables (3) have you replaced the CMOS battery in your computers (which in turn affects if the settings are saved...) (4) are your server admins pulling a fast one on you by simply screwing around with the connections, or do you trust them (5) do you push remote updates or policies to your machines (6) what operating systems are you running? – Avery Payne – 2014-03-18T18:37:36.800