Re: No GC - can a new one be created?

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:54:26 -0700

Hi Thanks for the help, we have only 1 domain, and we have
enabled the gc on the other dc and restarted it, but still
the same problem.

Here is the result of the dcdiag:

      Starting test: Advertising
         Warning: JUPITER has not finished promoting to be
a GC.
         Check the event log for domains that cannot be
replicated.
         Warning: JUPITER is not advertising as a global
catalog.
         Check that server finished GC promotion.
         Check the event log on server that enough source
replicas for the GC ar
e available.

Intersite
     Starting test: FsmoCheck
        Warning: DcGetDcName(GC_SERVER_REQUIRED) call
failed, error 1355
        A Global Catalog Server could not be located - All
GC's are down.

Jupiter now holds all of the domain FSMO roles - these
have been successfully siezed from the orginal DC, but as
you can see jupiter has not finished promting itself to a
GC server. So we beleive there are no copies of the gc to
allow jupiter to replicate the gc.

Thanks again for your help!
Marc.

>-----Original Message-----
>circa Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:11:44 -0700, in
>microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory, Marc
>(anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com) said,
>> We had hardware prolems with our GC server in a windows
>> 2000 native domain (power failure). We tried moving the
>> server hard drive from one to another (we are just
using a
>> desktop - bad i know) as we were unable to bring the
old
>> hardware back up. Once the harddrive had been moved
into
>> the new desktop the OS starts ok and everything seems
ok,
>> yet none of the users can log in. So we tried demoting
>> this DC, but unfortunatly we did not transfer the gc to
>> another DC before doing so. Now the orginal DC still
>> thinks it is the gc server and that it is still a DC,
>> where as the other 2 servers in the domain don't see
it.
>> All we need to do is re-create the GC on one the other
>> DC's so that the users can log on etc. Does any one
know
>> if this is possible? And if it is possible how do we do
it?
>>
>BTW, I'm not sure that the GC issue is actually the
problem here. How
>many domains do you have?
>
>Laura
>--
>Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
>-Oscar Wilde
>.
>

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