Unable to promote Win 2003 Server to DC in Win 2000 Domain

C

Chai

Hi there,

My server crash today and I have reformat the server and
reinstall back windows 2003 server, which previous is DC
in win 2000 domain.

After I reinstall and try to join to the domain, I got
error message - cannot find the DC in active directory,
DNS name cannot be contact!!

I can ping the main DC and with DNS name also no problems!

Any ideas?

I have patch the win 2003 server before promote and
previous I did not patch the server when I promote the
server - it is the cause? I patch Q822925, Q823559, and
Q823980!

Thanks

Chai
 
J

Johan Arwidmark

Make sure your server uses the DNS Server (prefered DNS)
(eg configure the DNS Client)

Also check the zone file for srv records

Johan Arwidmark
 
D

Dmitry Korolyov

Do you have your schema updated to version 30?
If not, use adprep /forestprep, and most likely read some articles about
upgrading to 2003.
 

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