Hello All, I just set up a BDC which has a PDC on the other side of a WAN link. I can get the BDC to synchronized with the PDC fine when I do it manually in Server Manager. They don’t however seem to sync automatically. The PDC seems to automatically sync to a local BDC just fine as determined by event viewer on the PDC. Event viewer on the PDC or my BDC report no errors. Only the successful syncs when I do it manually. Any ideas. thanks Bob

Hi all, Though I would report back for anyone following the thread. I have it all working now. I am not sure exactly what did it but I did two things that seem to help. 1) I put a LMHOSTS on all three domain controllers. 2) I issued a Net accounts /sync command from the problem BDC. This seem not only to sync the SAMs but two other Databases as well, (builtin and LSA??). Now they seem to sync automatically when a change is made to the domain. This is evident by the Netlogin entries in Event viewer. Interestingly, no errors were ever reported in the PDC's event viewer when the sync's were not occurring. You would think something like, "BDC Test was not found", especially since the PDC is supposedly pulsing the BDC's ever 5 min to see if it is online. Bob