DCPROMO RPC error

I am trying to promote a domain controller on 2008 in a separate site to my
domain. The only existing current DCs are in another site. The sites are
connected by permanent VPN, and I know it's working because I can log on to
the domain perfectly well (a bit slowly) from any computer at the remote
site, as well as join the domain as a member server from the computer I am
trying to promote.

When running DCPROMO, it starts the process then stops with the error:

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The operation failed because:

Active Directory Domain Services could not create the NTDS Settings object
for this Active Directory Domain Controller CN=NTDS
Settings,CN=ES-SERVER2,CN=SERVERS,CN=ELEMENTARY,CN=SITES,CN=CONFIGURATION,DC=stghs,DC=net
on the remote AD DC hs-server2.stghs.net. Ensure the provided network
credentials have sufficient permissions.

"The RPC Server is unavailable."
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Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

Aaron Stamboulieh - MCSA


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