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by dganesh

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I have a windows 2000 server as a domain controller with its ip address 192.9.200.1. pc name spkc,and domain name spkcserver.and I created a addtional domain controller for that spkcserver and its ip address was 192.9.200.10.
Due to some problem i formatted the domain controller pc and installed windows 2000 and now iam not able to convert this as domain controller,what to do and how to do pls help me

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by jellimonsta

I would imagine that you did install the formatted system with Windows 2000 server and not Pro. You will need to make sure it is a member of the domain where your existing DC resides and then you can run 'dcpromo' and promote the formatted server to a DC.

by cg it

what does "formatted" mean? and what does "due to some problem" mean? What does not able to convert to a domain controller mean?

Like the first answer, if you had to reinstall W2K server on the second box, just join the that server to the domain as a member server and run dcpromo. If your trying to make a W2K machine into a W2K Server machine I think it should be self evident why you cant make the W2K box into a server.

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