Replication Problem :-( Urgent help needed please...

From: Vik (Vik_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:03:04 -0800

Hello Gurus,
I am having problems with Active Directory (AD) replication lately. Here is
the situation:
We have a network at Head office (HO) and other office is at another
location. The HO has a domain with domain controller otsrv. The other office
had a DC (paxsrv)connected to HO's domain. They connect over internet (WAN).
But some time back it stopped replicating and it changed itself to a site, so
we reformated the server (paxsrv) intalled OS, installed AD and connected the
server to HO's domain. This part went fine with server getting connected to
AD and all that. But now here are the problems:
1. I cannot add any users/computers from paxsrv to the active directory. It
gives me the error saying:
Windows cannot create a object because: The directory service was unable to
allocate a relative identifier

2. The servers won't replicate with each other. If I try to manually force
the replication from AD sites and service it gives me the following error:
one or more of these Active Directory connections are between domain
controllers in different sites and cannot be replicated immediately. Active
directory will replicate these connections at the next opportunity.

3. In the Event viewer I can see the following even under File Replication:

The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from
PAXSRV to OTSRV for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain using the

DNS name paxsrv.rbcinc.com. FRS will keep retrying.
 Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning.
 
 [1] FRS can not correctly resolve the DNS name paxsrv.rbcinc.com from this
computer.
 [2] FRS is not running on paxsrv.rbcinc.com.
 [3] The topology information in the Active Directory for this replica has
not yet replicated to all the Domain Controllers.
  This event log message will appear once per connection, After the problem
is fixed you will see another event log message
indicating that the connection has been established.

Please let me know what could be the problem and what can be done to fix it.
Your response is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Vik

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