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pdc emulator not found

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by bwelter

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I have a parent / 2 child domain. The child 1 was recently installed and everything went normal. Child 2 however will not varify the trust. The error states that the "PDC Emulator is not available"

I am also getting NTDS KCC and Netlogin errors on both of the child domains.

I have double checked all settings and compared them to the first child domain. Everything seems to be correct. Also when this domain was added it placed itself in the root of DNS and not under the parent domain as the first one did.

How can I repair the emulation errors and re-establish the trust?

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by cg it

verify that the PCD emulator role is actually present on the DC.

The DNS zone can encompass contiguous namespace which means the zone .com can also include .yourdomain>.com

if your DNS isn't setup this way or you did n't create a DNS zone for the child domain, the DNS server can not provide resource information to clients.

Also, need to know how you created the child domain? did you create it on an existing DC?

by rt735

Check your parent for foward and not needed but useful for troubleshooting reverse lookup zones, also like the other before me, the names must be contigious but i dont get why your trying to create a external trust, if you are creating it all for one company or yourself, why the trust ?

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