I am running a network domain using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server with SP 6a. I have one PDC running DNS, DHCP, and WINS and one BDC running Exchange 5.5.
My plan is to migrate to Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Active Directory. Icreated an additional BDC, synched it up with the PDC, took it offline and stored it for recovery purposes. I then upgraded my PDC to Windows Advanced Server with seemingly no problems. Upon reboot, dcpromo started automatically as anticipated. Active Directory was installed and dcpromo found my existing DNS structure. Everything seemed to go smooth, until I tried to upgrade my BDC. The OS portion went fine, but when dcpromo tried to install Active Directory, I got an error message:
TheOperation failed because:
Failed finding a suitable domain controller for FD.com. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
I checked the event viewer and found the following errors:
7013
Logon attempt with current password failed with the
following error:
The trust relationship between this workstation and
the primary domain failed.
5721
The session setup to the Windows NT or Windows 2000
Domain Controller
CL.NET failed because the Domain Controller
does not have an account for the computer PDC.
I followed TechNet article Q283133 and found that I should check my sysvol shares. Using net share, I verified that they were in fact in the right place.
I then followed another article Q255913 telling me to tighten up my w2k DNS server. So, I turned on my zone to allow active updates, implemented the 4 new zones
_udp.DNSDomainName
_tcp.DNSDomainName
_sites.DNSDomainName
_msdcs.DNSDomainName
And stopped and started both the dns service and netlogon service.
The same error message still remains.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advanced,
Marc