dcpromo authentication fails

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rebollar

I am trying to promote a W2K member server to a DC. When
I launch dcpromo everything seems to work fine until it
actually tries to start running the installation I get a
message saying that the user and password that I am
providing for the domain is not valid. I have logged in
to the server with an administrative local account, as
well as an administrative domain account and I get the
same error. I don't know if there is a conflict between
the security settings in this machine and my DC in the
domain. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
First, make sure you are entering the user credentials in the
domain\username format. If it is still failing, I would check DNS....make
sure that the server you are promoting is pointing to an existing DC in the
domain for DNS and that that DC hosts a DNS zone for the domain and it is
populated with the correct HOST and CNAME records for the DCs.

If possible, please send the dcpromo.log from the server you are promoting.
 
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