Re: New Win2003 DC DNS into Win2000 AD with DNS

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Hello ed,

You said you setup no zones in DNS? Do you have created a zone with the 2000 DNS server after installing the first domain controller ther?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hi all,

I really hope someone can offer guidance since this is turning out to
be one horrible "ground hog" experience.

Our task: Completely moving from Windows 2000 AD to Windows 2003 AD

What's already done: We've done the pre-introduction of a Windows 2003
AD controller (Adprep, etc.)

The issue in detail:
- Install windows 2003 server - this is an original cd (not even sp1).
- Install sp2
- join domain
- install AD
At this point everything is fine, or seems so. Then here's where the
problem
starts:
- install DNS, maybe we're doing it wrong here so advice on the proper
options may help.
- our selections are, primary and secondary, not to create any new
zones, no forwarding
- even this seems to go without a hitch since looking at DNS
management
shows the AD DNS is already replicated....
However, after this successful DNS installation, if we reboot (for
whatever
reason):
- the reboot process "stalls" a bit at "Preparing Network Connections"
- then the dreaded "At least one driver....failed"
- the reboot takes a long time but, you'll finally get to the login
screen
- after logging in, and this is where it's driving us nuts, you find
that
the NETWORK CONNECTIONS container is empty!
- you essentially can't see any of "MY CONNECTIONS"
- If you do a hardware check, the adapters are fine
- but you have absolutely no network connectivity
- obviously at this point, the EVENT LOG is stacked with errors...
Hope someone has some thoughts...I've gone cross-eyed with this....and
yes, the AD cleanup is a chore (manually removing the failed
controller from AD...at least that seems to be going smoothly).

Thanks in advance!



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