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John Ceballos

Hello everyone!

I am trying to demote two servers and one of them is a
domain controller. For some reason, they are not able to
see each other even though they are on the same network.
When i try to dcpromo the domain controller, it says that
it can't complete the operation. I can ping both of them
from each other and have put their IP addresses in their
hosts tables and the other computer. Is there any way
that I can demote these servers in another way? Thanks.
Please reply also to my email address.
 
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John Ceballos said:
Hello everyone!

I am trying to demote two servers and one of them is a
domain controller. For some reason, they are not able to
see each other even though they are on the same network.
When i try to dcpromo the domain controller, it says that
it can't complete the operation. I can ping both of them
from each other and have put their IP addresses in their
hosts tables and the other computer. Is there any way
that I can demote these servers in another way? Thanks.
Please reply also to my email address.
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Are you pointing these machines only to the internal DNS server that holds
the FLZ for your domain?
Can you please provide an ipconfig /all for your machines?
 
What errors are you getting? Anything specific such as "can't find domain"?
If so, that's an SRV issue, such as they;re missing or your servers are
configed to use someother DNS server?

There's also a forceremoval switch for dcpromo. Need the hotfix. See this
article:

332199 - Using the DCPROMO -FORCEREMOVAL Command to Force the Demotion of
Active Directory Domain Controllers:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=332199

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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