If anyone could help we this it would be greatly appricated. I have a newly installed Windows server 2003 Domain Controller. Every 5 minutes it reports an event 1054 saying that it cannot find the domain controller name. This server is a domian controller and has a local DNS server. I also have a Windows 2000 server Domain Controller that has a DNS server. I know this error is incorrect because if I do a \\ based on the fully qualified domain name it comes up instantly. I have checked the A records on both DNS servers and the are correct. Aside from these error messages everything is working correctly. Clients can logon and access the server with no problem and the group policy is being applied correctly. If anyone has a suggestion to the cause of these error messages it would be a big help.

If anyone is still having issues with 1054 errors and negative ping times, I have found an article that discusses this. It amounts to a problem on multiple-core systems. Adding the /usepmtimer switch to the boot.ini fixes the problem.


http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.js...3&tstart=60


For more details on using the command line switch


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895980