Re: Adding child domain to parent domain - DNS issue? AD Issue?

See:
How to Create a Child domain in Active Directory and Delegate the DNS name
space to the Child domain

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255248





hth

DDS W 2k MVP MCSE



"markus_usa" <markus_usa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D6FAF904-4CB1-4A9B-9797-DE46ED97268E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Here's the setup.
>
> I have a Windows 2003 SP1 DC/GC in the parent running DNS etc. The parent
> domain is company.local.
>
> I have a new office in the UK with a brand new server. Windows 2003 SP1
> with
> DNS, DHCP etc. I want this to be a child domain so I can limit the domain
> admin account in that domain to just that domain. I don't want the UK
> admin
> person to be able to make changes in the parent/root domain.
>
> I know I need DNS running in the child domain. What zone should I setup
> there? Should it be a secondary of the parent (which I can change to a
> primary) or should I setup a new primary zone of uk.company.local?
>
> I've tried every combination I can think of and dcpromo starts, replicates
> a
> bunch of objects and then once the replcation container is ready I get an
> error stating "Could not find the domain controller for this domain". This
> is
> driving me nuts!!!!
>
> Currently the new server is a member of the parent domain and using
> nslookup
> I can see every server without error. I have a site setup for the UK but
> haven't moved the server into it yet. The connection is a VPN tunnel using
> a
> T-1 on both ends.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>


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