The RPC server is unavailable

[Guest]

I'm trying to add a dc to existing domain, but when I'm running dcpromo on the part in the Network Credentials page (user, password and domain), after that I'm getting the message "The RPC server is unavailable". Am I doing something wrong
Thanks.

 

[Paul Bergson {MCT, MCSE}]

Load the support tools from your server install cd

d:\support\tools\setup.exe

Run the following from within a cmd file. Replace dcname with the name of
the domain controller you are running this from. This will generate a text
file that will pop up on your screen once completed.


dcdiag /e /c /v /s:dcname /f:c:\dcdiag.log
start c:\dcdiag.log

Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, CNE, CNA, CCA

I'm trying to add a dc to existing domain, but when I'm running dcpromo on

the part in the Network Credentials page (user, password and domain), after
that I'm getting the message "The RPC server is unavailable". Am I doing
something wrong?

 

[Guest]

"RPC server is unavailable" errors are commonly caused by DNS problems.

Verify DNS is working well and DCs are correctly registered in DNS before doing anything else

You can run "netdiag /v /test:dns" to check for DNS issues.

Craig Landis [MSFT
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