We upgraded from a Windows 2000 server to a 2003 server in a child domain over a year ago, but left the DHCP service running on the 2000 server. Recently we tried to move all remaining services to the new server. The original DHCP server was unauthorized but when we attempted to authorize the new server we get an “access is denied” message. The same message appears when we try to authorize the old server. The local administrator account has been added to the enterprise administrators group but still no success.
If I log on locally as the enterprise administrator for the whole domain, the “authorize server” option doesn’t even appear.
I have logged onto the root server and attempted to authorize the new server. When I do this I get a message that the operation was performed successfully, however when I log back onto the new child domain server the DHCP remains unauthorized.
I thought this was a permissions problem but now I’m wondering if there’s a problem with the communication/relationship between the root server and the server for the child domain.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.