AD Replication error Please help

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From: scjlin (scjlin_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:31:05 -0700

Hi, this is the problem I face it now. Originally there are two windows 2000 DC, and one NTServer running in the network. For some reason someone took NTServer offline without transfer the PDC mode. Now this is the problem, DC1 keeps getting NTDS replication error with NTServer, and it won’t talk to DC2. As result, I remove all NTServer records from ADSIEdit, and DNS server. Also, I verify that all DNS record for DC1, and DC2 are correct in both servers. However, I am getting NTDS replication errors in DC1’s event viewer.

1:
NTDS KCC Information: Event ID 1308: Directory Service Consistency checker has failed with DC2

2:
NTDS Replication Warning: Event ID 1586: The checkpoint with the PDC was unsuccessful. … The error returned was: The RPC server is unavailable.

I can run manual replication without any problem from DC1 to DC2. But I getting "Access is denied" when replicates from DC2 to DC1.

Also these are my fsmo role, and GC is at DC2:
C:\>netdom query fsmo
Schema owner dc1.abc.com
Domain role owner dc1.abc.com
PDC role dc2.abc.com
RID pool manager dc2.abc.com
Infrastructure owner dc1.abc.com
The command completed successfully.

Any suggestions or opinion are great appreciates. Thanks

sl