Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm on a domain that I can't control
the domain controllers on, but I can control my systems. All the
domain controllers are part of one site, and that cannot change.
However, one of the domain controllers is not working correctly
and the admins in charge of it are taking forever to resolve the
issue. There are 6 total domain controllers... for some reason
my workstations/servers are still attempting to use the bad one
to authenticate my users.  Is there a way to force a workstation
to use specific domain controllers? or, better yet, force it to
NOT use the bad one?  Thanks in advance!  share|improve this
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I've never done it, but supposedly you could use the #PRE tag in
the lmhosts file on each workstation to set the preferred domain
controller back in NT 4.0 days. Not sure if it still works, but
it's worth a try. You can read about it at Microsoft Technet
here under the "Specifying Domain Controllers" section. Make
sure