Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

DustinB3403

@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Not asking to be dumb... but have you checked to make sure the AD services and DNS services are booting up?

Double check to see if the DNS settings in the network card got b0rked?

He cannot login. The local administrator account gets disabled on windows domain controllers once they are created.

He could (as @Dashrender mentioned) try to boot to "last known good" but that may not work. He might be able to do a boot into the domain controller recovery option though.

DustinB3403

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

Dashrender

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

I did sorta kinda ask that above - I was unaware that 2012 Essentials booted to a CLI login interface.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

This is why I asked if there are more servers - if there is an additional AD, auth could maybe be done off that. But if nothing can authenticate, he's just screwed.

dafyre

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Not asking to be dumb... but have you checked to make sure the AD services and DNS services are booting up?

Double check to see if the DNS settings in the network card got b0rked?

He cannot login. The local administrator account gets disabled on windows domain controllers once they are created.

He could (as @Dashrender mentioned) try to boot to "last known good" but that may not work. He might be able to do a boot into the domain controller recovery option though.

He just said he has CLI access to the system.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

Correct

@dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

There is no AD DC running, even the DC itself doesn't have login capability.

scottalanmiller

At this point the router failed, so there is no access to anything anymore.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

Correct

@dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

Correct

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Already checked the health of the AD?

He can't log in, so that's kinda hard.

Then what’s up with all this talk about a someone using CLI?

You can run dcdiag from a remote windows system on the same domain, assuming any user can login.

This is why I asked if there are more servers - if there is an additional AD, auth could maybe be done off that. But if nothing can authenticate, he's just screwed.

Correct. But sadly, just one.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

Correct

@dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

Correct

Does 2012 Essentials have DSRM (Directory Services Recovery Mode) ?

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:

Are you unable to logon to the box at all?

Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.

Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?

Correct

@dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.

Correct

Does 2012 Essentials have DSRM (Directory Services Recovery Mode) ?

Yes, and it doesn't work.