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by c0nv1ct04

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When attempting to create a child domain in an existing forest, (i.e. I have a DC with active directory services running) I experience the following error just after entering the administrative account, password, and Domain.
"The domain "bcisd.asd.net" is not an Active Directory domain, or an Active Directory domain controller for this domain could not be contacted."

Any ideas?

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by abubin

it could be that both server have no communication established. Try pinging the main domain to see if they can talk to each other.

Once that is done, check to see that you are not trying to connect existing already configured domain to this forest domain. You should use DCPROMO to promote a member server to a domain controller.

by izz

Hi there. It is a good idea to start with the ping to find out if they can communicate. But the most important is the new PC that u are configring configured with the DNS of the domain controller. Since in most 2k products DNS is ery vital and imp to most issues. Check if created a record for the pc u are tryin to add, if not add a A record to the DNS database. Hope this works out with you...

by c0nv1ct04

All I had to do was add a DNS entry for the New Domain in the Root server and enable a loopback interface on the root server.

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