Global Catalog Server Problem

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Mike Hakopyan

Hi everyone,
I'm having issues with one of my AD Servers. It says that
it's not a GC server when I'm trying to seize the domain
naming master role from a server which is no longer on the
network. But this server is checked for GC under NTDS
settings. I'm not sure what else to try...I've been going
nuts over this. I have managed to seize all of the roles
except for the domain naming master role from the old AD.

what can I do to clean up AD, DNS and get this server to
update and make it a GC?

Any help towards the right direciton is appreciated.

Thank you,

Mike H.
 
Well is it a GC? The box being checked just means someone checked it.

Go get adfind from www.joeware.net on the win32 free c++ tools and run the following command against the server

adfind -h servername -b "" -s base isGlobalCatalogReady

like this

C:\WINDOWS>adfind -h w2kasdc1 -b "" -s base isglobalcatalogready

AdFind V01.12.00cpp Joe Richards ([email protected]) May 2003

Using server: w2kasdc1.joehome.com

dn:
isGlobalCatalogReady: TRUE
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1 Objects returned

C:\WINDOWS>



If it doesn't say true, you aren't a GC. If it says true you are, but sometimes you need a reboot to get it to kick in.
I have seen that once or twice in the hundreds of GC's I have made. You can actually test of that is the case by adding
the -GC switch to the command above

adfind -gc -h servername -b "" -s base isGlobalCatalogReady

If the GC port isn't on, it will fail with server down.
 
Hi - I also had the exact problem while running for DR
test in the lab. I was able to resolve this by restoring
only the system state again and then transfer the domain
role. My question is if after I ran the adfind command,
and found out that it is not a GC server even though it is
checked as the GC. How can I use this command to make
this server a GC server?
Thank you,
Min
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Well is it a GC? The box being checked just means someone checked it.

Go get adfind from www.joeware.net on the win32 free c++
Click to expand...
tools and run the following command against the server
adfind -h servername -b "" -s base isGlobalCatalogReady

like this

C:\WINDOWS>adfind -h w2kasdc1 -b "" -s base isglobalcatalogready

AdFind V01.12.00cpp Joe Richards ([email protected]) May 2003

Using server: w2kasdc1.joehome.com

dn:


1 Objects returned

C:\WINDOWS>



If it doesn't say true, you aren't a GC. If it says true
Click to expand...
you are, but sometimes you need a reboot to get it to kick
in.
I have seen that once or twice in the hundreds of GC's I
Click to expand...
have made. You can actually test of that is the case by
adding
 
It may be in the process of becoming one. It isn't an instantaneous thing and has to be able to communicate with other
machines to get the partition info for all of the partitions in the forest.
 
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