2008 replication

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Hi -
I have an issue I am stuck on... I'll try to keep the explaintion fairly
short.

I have 2 new 2008 servers that I have added AD to. These are being added to
a Domain that currently has 2 -2003 DC's. I did the Adprep for forest,
domain and GPs.
Everything went OK until it was time to replicate.... here is what I get...
(by the way - the 2 2003 DCs have DNS on them)
When I try to initiate a replication form either 2008 DC- to any server - I
get this error - "the following occured during attempt to contact (current
server name) "RPC server not avaialble"
When initiating from the 2003 server - they replicate to each other fine.
when I try to replicate to either 2008 server - I get "naming context is in
the process of being removed or is not replicated for the speific server."

I have looked at a lot of the DNS problem solving ideas... but everything
looks to be OK with DNS. Could this be a 2008 issue rather then a DNS
issue??? Has anyone run into this when introducing 2008 into the Domain.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! thanks in advance!!!

ALso, the only odd thing I noticed was when installing the 2nd DC, a message
said it ofund 3 DNS servers in the Domain. there are only 2. Is there some
cmd to identify the servers thought to be hosting DNS???

thanks - again - Cindy
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Cindy B
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