Re: AD confusion problem - adding DC's

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From: Al Mulnick (amulnick_No_SPAM_at_ncDOTrr.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:36:00 -0500

Event id 5781? Deregistration of the DNS records?

Can you post the latest events in their entirety? If not posting it, can
you send it off-line? amulnick_at_nc.rr.com is the address.

When you restart netlogon, do you get the same event entries or are they no
longer appearing?

Al

"Bob Grabbe" <bgrabbe@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:up04hCDwEHA.3808@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Didn't reuse any names of servers. It seems like this stems from a couple
> of months ago when I first added a second DC to the mix. At that time, the
> only machine I had to use was an old pc that I put on the network simply
> because having only one dc made me paranoid. I've had 5782 and 5781 errors
> from Netlogon from about that time on.
> Restarting netlogon has only ever given me the same errors.
>
> --
> Bob Grabbe
> bgrabbe@umich.edu
>
> "Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote in message
> news:%23$Kj4ZivEHA.3228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> The references to that error seem vague. When you added and removed dc's
>> from the domain, did you reuse any of the names maybe?
>>
>> How long between adding/subtracting did you wait?
>>
>> It bothers me that the GUID cannot be found for server that's registered,
>> although it could just be a missing DNS entry. If that were the case,
>> you should be able to either restart the netlogon service to re-register
>> the records, else restart the DC which should also result in records
>> re-registering.
>>
>> I think it would be good for dcdiag to complete successfully before
>> continuing. Netdiag as well.
>>
>> Are there are any errors in the event logs of interest?
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> "Bob Grabbe" <bgrabbe@umich.edu> wrote in message
>> news:uJqPClevEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> I'm thinking you mean repadmin /showobjmeta, when I do this I get:
>>> C:\Program Files\Support Tools>repadmin /showobjmeta
>>> ff788939-74ec-b8b8-6a8e63c3
>>> 16d4_msdcs,proteomeconsortium.org
>>> Repadmin experienced the following error trying to resolve the DC_NAME:
>>> ff788939
>>> -74ec-b8b8-6a8e63c316d4_msdcs,proteomeconsortium.org
>>> Error: An error occured:
>>> Win32 Error 8419(0x20e3): The DSA object could not be found.
>>>
>>> Bob Grabbe
>>> bgrabbe@umich.edu
>>>
>>> "Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:uwdpOxcvEHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>> No, the version shouldn't matter.
>>>> When you searched for the GUID, you only used the ADUC right? How
>>>> about using LDP instead? Also, check out the
>>>> repadmin /showmeta "<"GUID for deleted object">"
>>>> and see what you get back. You might play with it a little and put the
>>>> CNF: in front of it to see if you can find it. It exists somewhere as
>>>> noted by DCDIAG. We just need to figure out where.
>>>>
>>>> Al
>>>>
>>>> "Bob Grabbe" <bgrabbe@umich.edu> wrote in message
>>>> news:e4nYUccvEHA.3200@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Nope, only one domain shows in ntdsutil. All three dc's show in the
>>>>> list of servers, but any one of them that I pick to connect to show
>>>>> the same thing, only 1 domain.
>>>>> Also, the kb does refer to Windows 2000, the domain is functional
>>>>> 2000, but all the servers are Windows 2003. Would this matter ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob Grabbe
>>>>> bgrabbe@umich.edu
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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