Win 2000 PDC crashed

[Derek]

We had our Win 2k Domain controller (PDC) crash. We
reinstalled Windows as the same computer name. We got the
error "The account-identifier allocator failed to
initialize properly. The record data contains the NT
error code that caused the failure. Windows 2000 will
retry the initialization until it succeeds; until that
time, account creation will be denied on this Domain
Controller." The domain still thinks that this server is
the main PDC. but the error suggests otherwise. We went to
the "Organization Master" and transferred the roles of the
RID , PDC and Infrastructure to another Domain Controller.
IS there more that will need to be done?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

If you have multiple DCs in the domain, and one of them crashes, you must perform metadata cleanup on that failed DC
But since you already reinstalled it with the same name, that complicates things
Best bet is to demote that DC that was rebuilt, walk through the metadata cleanup steps to clean up all metadata for it, then on one of the other DCs, run "netdom query fsmo" to verify which DC has the operations master roles. If any of the roles show up as being held by the failed DC, seize them to another DC with ntdsutil.
Then you can promote the rebuilt server to be a DC again