Renaming only DC - user accounts backup

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Karthik

:Windows 2000 server:

I have to rename the only DC in the network since there was
a conflict in the netbios name. I was planning to promote a
client to act as secondary DC but the problem is it is not
able to find the old domain. The error message is " the
domain "xxx.yy" is not an active directory domain. or an
Active directory domain controller for the domain could not
be contacted". I can always demote the DC, rename and
promote to be DC, but I would like to have the user
accounts reverted. I was wondering if we could take a back
up of all the user accounts so we could revert back. If
this is possible with scripting, please let me know how it
can be done.

Thanks
Karthik.
 
You are experiencing DNS problems. Make sure the Server
you are trying to promote has a connection to the DNS
server and that you can ping the domain by name, i.e.,
ping domain.com. Until this occurs you won't be able to
promote a new DC.
 
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