PDC Problems

[Rachael Houghton]

Please someone help me with this problem that is really getting on my
nerves.

I have a client with a 2K domain and the original DC is getting very tired,
I connected a new server, ran DCPROMO and transfered the five FSMO roles to
the new server.

When I turn off server 1 (old) and start server 2 it takes for ever to boot
and does not allow you to access AD, it says that the domain could not be
found. How can this be when that server is a DC and has the five FSMO roles
assigned to it.

In the old days I would have just promoted server 2 to PDC and then removed
server 1 from the domain !!!!

DNS is installed an functioning properly on server 2, please help, I really
want to see the back of server 1

 

[Peter Demeyer]

If it says that the domain cannot be found, it sounds like a DNS problem.
Is server 2's ip address filled in in the tcp/ip - dns properties? (is
server 2 its own dns server?)
Can clients (with dns pointing to server 2) login to the domain?

 

[Rachael Houghton]

No logins, no AD users and computers available on the server.

Also sysvol and netlogon seem to be missing from the new server.

 

[GK]

Did you move the global catalog off of the old server?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295419&Product=exch2k