Can I force a workstation to use a specific domain controller?

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Published on 2010-05-18T05:12:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 5:21 UTC
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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!

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