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by mbrown

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Our office just installed a new windows 2000 domain controller. This serves as a file server, domain controller, and proxy server for email and internet access. We keep getting an error message, and don't know why. Everything seems to be setup correctly. The error is:

Windows cannot create the new computer object because the pre-Windows 2000 computer name Name is already in use. Select another name, and then try again.

We named this server "Internet", and there is no other computer with this name

Does anyone know why we might get this?

Thanks in advance

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by maxwell edison

Microsoft has elected to declare Internet a restricted computer name. It can NOT be used by a domain controller, a member server, or a Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional client that is a member of a Windows 2000 domain.

If your server is namedInternet and you run Dcpromo, you will receive:

Lsass.exe - System Error
Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error:
The specified user already exists. Error Status: 0x0000063.
Please click OK to shutdown the system and reboot into Directory Services Restore mode,
check the event log for more detailed information.

If you attempt to join a Windows 2000 domain with a compter named Internet, you receive one of the following:

Windows cannot create the new computer object because the pre-Windows 2000 computer name Name is already in use.

Select another name, and then try again.

OR

Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred:No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.

If you ran Dcpromo, you must restore your server from a backup taken prior to the attempted promotion. Then you must rename the computer before running Dcpromo again.

If you tried to join a Windows 2000 domain, rename your computer, shutdown and restart, and try again.

Good luck,

Maxwell

by maxwell edison

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By the way, to rename a PDC:

1. Control Panel / Network / Identification. Click the Change button and type the new computer name. Reboot.

2. Server Manager / Add to Domain, add the new name as a BDC (it will actually be added as a PDC).
3. Server Manager / Remove from Domain, remove the old name and any duplicate new name entry as a BDC.

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by mbrown

Thank you. I should have figured out that it was something that simple.

Mark B.

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