can't demote DC

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mike

I have 3 dc's, and want to demote one of them. Let's say
ser01, ser 02, and ser03. I want to keep 1 and 2, get rid
of 3. All FSMO's are on 1 and 2. When I run dcpromo on 3,
it fails with the following message; the operation failed
because;Active Directory could not configure the computer
account ser03$ on the remote domain controller
ser01.domain.com. "access is denied". I am using an
enterprise admin account to run dcpromo. What permissions
does the 2 and 3 dc need to be able to accept
authentication from ser03? I think it may be something in
the local policy, but have not found what it is.

I know I can force this out with ntdsutil, but would
rather fix this problem and do it cleanly.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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