DcPromo Fails

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lucadiggia

Hi,
I've this kind of problem
I've just made a new Active Directory Domain controller on my Lan
When i try to join a Client on this domain everything work successfully but
if i try to promote a StandAlone Server to a domain controller of this
domain the machine back to me an error message talking about DNS Config.
I think that my DNS Server is correctly configured both forward and reverse
zone.
Someone can help me?
 
lucadiggia said:
Hi,
I've this kind of problem
I've just made a new Active Directory Domain controller on my Lan
When i try to join a Client on this domain everything work successfully but
if i try to promote a StandAlone Server to a domain controller of this
domain the machine back to me an error message talking about DNS Config.
I think that my DNS Server is correctly configured both forward and reverse
zone.
Someone can help me?
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It's almost always a DNS issue -- you DNS (either client or server)
config is almost certainly in error.

1) Dynamic DNS for the zone that corresponds to the domain
2) ALL client NICs set to this internal, DYNAMIC DNS ONLY
DCs are clients TOO!!!
3) Restart the NetLogon service on the DC if you have to change
#1 or #2

Many people try to set their clients to both internal and (wrong)
external DNS servers or they forget that their DCs/DNS servers
are "clients of DNS" too.

If not, they don't register AND cannot find each other.

Run DCDiag as the primary diagnostic tool, but usally following
the ideas above will just fix it.

BTW, what's you domain name? Some people have trouble with
"single label domain names", i.e., domain, rather than domain.com etc.
(Note: Every domain has a NetBIOS equivalent which is single tag;
this is NOT the issue here.)
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Herb Martin said:
It's almost always a DNS issue -- you DNS (either client or server)
config is almost certainly in error.

1) Dynamic DNS for the zone that corresponds to the domain
2) ALL client NICs set to this internal, DYNAMIC DNS ONLY
DCs are clients TOO!!!
3) Restart the NetLogon service on the DC if you have to change
#1 or #2

Many people try to set their clients to both internal and (wrong)
external DNS servers or they forget that their DCs/DNS servers
are "clients of DNS" too.

If not, they don't register AND cannot find each other.

Run DCDiag as the primary diagnostic tool, but usally following
the ideas above will just fix it.

BTW, what's you domain name? Some people have trouble with
"single label domain names", i.e., domain, rather than domain.com etc.
(Note: Every domain has a NetBIOS equivalent which is single tag;
this is NOT the issue here.)
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Hi,
My error is change....
Now I'm not able to make the DCPROMO (when the machine try to change his
role back to me "the network name is not more available") and also I was
unable to join a client in a domain ,previous i do it, with the same error
message
If i run nslookup the server responde correctly.
If i create a Host in the DNS table and run nslookup i'm able to resolve the
host.
I try with the Dinamically DNS and also with Protect Dinamically DNS, the
kind of server is "integrated in active directory"
Can you help me again?

My domain name is crwblq2000.local
BTW where can i find some diagnostics tools (i.e. DCDIAG - NLTEST)? I've
install the resource kit but i don't find it.
Thanks
Luca
 
BTW where can i find some diagnostics tools (i.e. DCDIAG - NLTEST)? I've
install the resource kit but i don't find it.
Thanks
Luca
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Check the support tools on the install media - look in the \support
directory.

John
 
Try stepping through the information in this article BEFORE doing your DCPromo

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825036

If you are unfamiliar with DNS in general and plan on running primarily
on a win2k network try

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnswin2/

alot of the situations that you face in a Windows 2000 network are
complex, and require that you read until your eyes bleed....


Brent

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and those who don't"
 
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