RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

[John Wan]

Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

It more than likely your AD systems and DDAN not working properly when you setup your AD in the first place.

solution is to reinstall your AD and let your AD setup to finish the job of setting up DDNS.

 

John Wan 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:54 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

Can you tell me the FQDN of the existing DC and then compare that to what you are entering for this new proposed DC?  Also can you do an nslookup on the FQDN (just the domain, not the machine) from your existing dc and the new one you are going to put on.  This will help determine if you are having issues with DNS (specifically reverse zones).  You may want to check the FSMO roles of the existing DC too and make sure everything is good there. 

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Seyi Owoeye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

Hi Diane,

Thanks for your help. I checked the status of my sysvol folder and it is
shared already, I have also checked article Q283133 and I checked all
the items that were mentioned there with my setup and all corresponded
and were ok on my dc but yet I still cannot join the domain, do you have
any other suggestions.

Thanks

Seyi

-----Original Message-----
From: Ayers, Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:12 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

See Q283133.  Verify that the sysvol is shared out on your running DC. 

There are a lot of Q articles on this type of error.  Do a KB search on
http://Support.microsoft.com

Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: Seyi Owoeye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller

Thanks David,
 
This is the exact error message that I get
 
The operation failed because:
 
Failed finding a suitable domain controller for the domain
allied-technologies.com
 
"The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Bray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 2:59 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller
 
Can you tell us what the exact error message is? 
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Ulrich Neuert [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:15 AM
To: Seyi Owoeye
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Unable to add an additional domain controller
 
Hello Seyi,
Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 12:13:18 PM, you wrote:
SO> Hi guys,
 
SO> I have just set up a windows 2000 domain, I set up the domain
controller
SO> and I set up clients all the client machines are running windows
2000
SO> professional and I have no problem on that present network for now.
 
SO> Now I want to add another domain controller to the domain as an
SO> additional domain controller, so I run the dcpromo command from the
SO> command prompt and the active directory installation wizard begins.
 
SO> I tell it that I want to add the present machine as an additional
domain
SO> controller. It then asks me for the domain name and I supply it, but
it
SO> gives me an error. So I try the domain name again but this time
SO> excluding .com from the full domain name, so I get another screen
and
SO> this time it prompts with the full domain name under the domain name
tab
SO> and it completes the name with .com included. So I click next and
then
SO> it tells me that the domain name cannot be contacted, then I browse
for
SO> domains and it gives me the full domain name with .com included but
if I
SO> select that I get the same error I got earlier, so this time I
exclude
SO> the .com and then it tells me that to I want to refer to the full
domain
SO> name with the .com included and I say yes. It asks me a couple of
SO> questions after wards but yet it is still not able to communicate
with
SO> the domain.
 
SO> Please how do I solve this problem but it is really hindering my
work.
 
 
SO> Thanks
SO> Seyi
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had the same problem. Set up Microsofts DNS on your DC.
Add your DNS-servers IP-address to the reverse lookup zone manually.
Test your DNS with nslookup from command-prompt.
Regards
 Ulrich
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