This is further to my previous problem about promoting but the Group Policy is fixed. I am now trying to promote the server that I forced removed as explain in my previous post and receive the error "The Credentials Supplied Conflict with an Existing set of credentials" I checked all drive mapping etc to see if there was a mapping to cause this error and there were none.... Well none visible. I used "NET USE" in a command prompt and it showed the following:- Status = OK Local = Remote = \\VLSEXCH2000.VANGUARD.COM.AU\SYSVOL Network = Microsoft Windows Network I have been told that this is because this particular server believes that it is still part of AD. I was also informed that there is a post on this site that explains how to do a registry hack to change a setting to make the server believe that it is just part of the domain and not part of AD. Once this change has been made I then has been informed to delete SYSVOL and NTDS folders. Not sure if a restart was required after this and then try the dcpromo and all should be fine. I can not find this post so can anyone please help me. Rodney P.S. I am now able to successfully promote other Win2000 Servers to be part of AD since the Group Policy has been fixed. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
