new domain controller not getting listed in main domain controller

[ketan]

Hi,

We have our main dc kept at isp office. and other two dc's
are in our office. for hardware upgradation we planned two
replace one secondary server at our office , which was
also a Global catalog server in this site. Both the main
dc and this secondary dc are on live ip.now after the
win2k server installation we installed active directory
and created this new server as a third dc. Then we
replaced this new dc with the old dc ( for upgradation).
now the problem is that our main dc is not showing an
domaion controler account in its dc list for this new dc.
on the new dc's system event log an error message for SAM
is coming repeatedly. the message is as follows "The
account-identifier allocator failed to initialize
properly. The record data contains the NT error code that
caused the failure. Windows 2000 will retry the
initialization until it succeeds; until that time, account
creation will be denied on this Domain Controller. Please
look for other SAM event logs that may indicate the exact
reason for the failure. "

Any solution for how to create dc account in the main dc.
is there any problem with the installation of active
directory.

 

[Arend van der Boom]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 05:48:42 +0100, ketan wrote:

Any solution for how to create dc account in the main dc. is there any
problem with the installation of active directory.

I do not have a strait answer for you, I do now that replaceing/adding
DC's is tricky business. One false move and the already active DC's
replicate the wrong way overwriting your new DC's configuration, or the
other way around.
Something in the back of my head says there was also something with
Global catalog and DC's but don't know what that was.

You could try to demote the new DC, reboot, and promote it again to DC

The best advice I have is to search through technet at
http://technet.microsoft.com maby you will find something there that
might help you.

Just my E0.02
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Arend van der Boom

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