Hello All,
I was trying to transfer our Win 2000 DC/DNS
server to a new Win 2003 box. I had tested it
in a lab with no problems, but now I’m having
nothing but problems.
Well I did dcpromo and it went fine, then
trying to transfer roles gave me a problem,
then DNS didn’t replicate, now I can’t demote
the DC to try it again. I was able to remove
the DNS from the Win2k3 box just fine.
I am pointing the dns for both boxes at the
working DNS server.
From the DC that works trying to use REPLMON,
won’t connect to the Win2K3 box, but ping works
fine using either the IP or the dns name.
Checking the FSMO roles on both servers show
both think they are the domain naming master
and infrastructure master, which makes me think
this is a comm issue between the two. Anyway
to find and resolve this problem?
Any time I try to dcpromo to demote the Win2K3
box, I get this error:
“Active directory could not transfer the
remaining data in directory partition
CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=byng,DC=local to
domain controller terver.byng.local”
“The RPC server is unavailable”
Also, in the domaindnszones and forestdnszones
parts on the working DNS box only shows the
failed Win2K3 box’s address and name, could
that be a problem?
Now I haven’t done anything to with the AD from
the Win2K3 box, should there be any problems
with doing a dcpromo /forceremoval and a
subsequent metadata cleanup?
I’d preferably like to fix this problem but I
don’t know where to go next and the force
removal is the only thing google has found for
me that I haven’t tried.