DCPromo "Access Denied"

[Dave]

Hi all,
Hope someone can help with this one as have exhausted my
resources. Have a Win2000 domain with 4 servers all
Active directory and 3 of the 4 are DC's. The fourth one
is the problem. I have been trying to dcpromo it and
received the 'Failed to modify the necessary properties
for the machine account $computername%$ "Access denied"
I have found the knowledge base article 250874 which
describes the problem to the tee but haven't had any luck
on following the instructions. I have edited my default
domain policy and added the 'admins, domain admins and
the administrators of the domain and I still receive the
same error. I have all the machines on service pack 4
also. Anyone with any idea's for me or whom have had the
same issue. I sure would appreciate some advice.

Thank you.
Dave
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[Ellen Prater [MSFT]]

It sounds like a permission issue. Take a look at the following article:

308311 Dcpromo May Generate "Access Denied" or "Cannot Find the File
Specified"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308311

Also, grant the Enterprise Admins group the user right "Access this
computer from the network", and then refresh the security policy.


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