active directory restore problem

[kellogy]

Hi,

I have a problem with win2k servers running
active directories.

We had a primary domain controller and one
additonal domain controller for the pdc. PDC went down due
to hardware failure. so i created an additional domain
controller and seized the 5 fsmo roles.

Infrastructure, RID and PDC on one domain
controller and schema and domain naming master on another.
I made the server containing the schema and domain naming
master role as the global catelog. Now this server is
giving a problem. Its not able to boot even in safe mode.
So can i create an additional domain controller and seize
the schema and domain naming master role. I have problems
in giving permission to shares etc. since the golbal
catelog is not available????

Any suggestion in this reg.

-kellogy.

 

[Jimmy Andersson]

Yes you can do that, but if you're in a single domain environment you should
make all DCs GCs, it will not put any overhead on the Infra Master.

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[kellogy]

I have some more queries reg. the role transfer.

I'm in an environment where there is a single primary
domain and one child domain for the primary domain.

one backup domain ctlr holds the infrastucture, RID and
pdc roles and the second the forest wide roles of schema
and domain naming master. This also contains the global
catelog. Now this mac is currently offline.

With this situation, if i try to add computers to the
primary domain, or give assing permissions for shares to
members in the primary domain, i'm not able to do it. The
error message when i try to add a mac. to the primary
domain is --- this server cannot perform the requested
operation, but i'm able to do all these operations on the
child domain. I have made the domain ctlr holding the
domain roles as the global catelog.


with this scenario, can i seize the the forest level roles
to the domain controller with has the domain roles. Will
this solve the problem? I read in some documentation that
server hosting the infrastructure fsmo role cannot be a
global catelog? Is that so?

will siezing the roles help me in any way?


-kellogy