Error 16650 NEED Help

[Jim]

In the Event log I am getting an error number of 16650-
Source SAM. The description is The aacount-identifier
allocator failed to intialize properly. The record data
contains the NT error code that caused the failure.
Windows 2000 may retry the initialization until it
succeeds; until that time, account creation will be denied
on this Domain Controller.

I am new to this organization so I don't know all the
details yet, but this is on a 2000 domain controller using
active directory moved from an NT 4.0 domain controller.
Which was on another machine

There are 2 other machines that are in the domain
controllers list that shouldn't be. One does not exist
anymore and one does but is doing other tasks but not as a
dc it is a NT 4.0 Server

when I run a dcdiag on the 2 domain controllers it is
coming back with DCGETDCNAme call failed error 1355

Also I am getting an Event Id of 1586 source NTDS
replication

Help I have went to all the articles but none are working
for me it seems. When I try to do a metadata cleanup and
bind to the old NT 4.0 server it will not let me saying
something about an endpoint mapper error

Please help

 

[Simon Geary]

I replied to your previous post Jim, have you checked the availability of
the RID Master yet?

 

[Jim]

yes they all point to my PDC

-----Original Message-----
I replied to your previous post Jim, have you checked the availability of
the RID Master yet?




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[jim]

although it doesn't seem to be able to be contacted by my
other DC but they can ping each other

 

[ptwilliams]

Classic mistake. Pinging proves name to IP resolution is working. It
doesn't prove that DC, GC, Site, etc. locator records can be found.

Sounds like you've got an issue with your SRV records. Point the machine
that cannot be contacted to one of the other DNS servers for its DNS
settings and restart the Netlogon service...wait 15 mins...and try
contacting it again


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although it doesn't seem to be able to be contacted by my
other DC but they can ping each other