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Jonathan S.
Hello,
Thanks in advance for your responses. I'm kinda new to all this, so
please bear with me.
I had two servers, both running Windows 2000 Server. The PDC (SERVER000)
crapped out the other day, and as predicted, nobody was really affected
because the logon/user rights authentication was handled by the second
server (SERVER001).
I just got a new server in (SERVER002), and installed Windows 2000
Server on it, and tried to add it to the domain as a domain controller.
Unfortunately, I could not add it to the domain. The error given was
"directory service was unable to allocate a relative identifier."
The event viewer on the existing Domain Controller (SERVER001) has about
a million of the following error listed since the PDC failed:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16650
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 8:08:29 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER001
Description:
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.
Data:
0000: a7 02 00 c0
I am also unable to access the Domain Controller Security Policy and the
Domain Security Policy from Administrative Tools. The message given when
I try to access those consoles is "Failed to Open the Group Policy
Object. You may not have appropriate rights. Details: The specified
domain either does not exisit or could not be contacted."
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks!
Jonathan
Thanks in advance for your responses. I'm kinda new to all this, so
please bear with me.
I had two servers, both running Windows 2000 Server. The PDC (SERVER000)
crapped out the other day, and as predicted, nobody was really affected
because the logon/user rights authentication was handled by the second
server (SERVER001).
I just got a new server in (SERVER002), and installed Windows 2000
Server on it, and tried to add it to the domain as a domain controller.
Unfortunately, I could not add it to the domain. The error given was
"directory service was unable to allocate a relative identifier."
The event viewer on the existing Domain Controller (SERVER001) has about
a million of the following error listed since the PDC failed:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16650
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 8:08:29 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER001
Description:
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.
Data:
0000: a7 02 00 c0
I am also unable to access the Domain Controller Security Policy and the
Domain Security Policy from Administrative Tools. The message given when
I try to access those consoles is "Failed to Open the Group Policy
Object. You may not have appropriate rights. Details: The specified
domain either does not exisit or could not be contacted."
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks!
Jonathan