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My experience is that using "\\mydomain.com\netlogon" is really flaky...



If Netlogon is not available on a DC, that indicates a problem with FRS. A DC will "offline" the Netlogon share when there is replication problems. The client should then look to DNS and resolve the "\\mydomain.com\netlogon" to another DC.
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