RE: 2008 replication

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Check this link please as a start.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727057.aspx
Aslo
Eliminate possible firewall issue preventing replication to fail
here is good start for you ,

Run followings to figure out the issues. ( Below is taken from another post)

dcdiag,
netdiag
repadmin

( Below is taken from another post and very useful)
DCDIAG /V /C /D /E /s:yourdcname > c:\dcdiag.log
netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log (On each dc)
repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt
dnslint /ad /s "ip address of your dc"

I like to fallow the consistency so please see my comment below

________________________________________________
LEC-AD1.CWC.local ( DNS is not installed here I assume)
156.98.109.251

DNS
156.98.109.208
156.98.109.236
______________________________________________
LECFILESERV (DNS Server)
CWC.Local
156.98.109.208

156.98.109.208 (DNS)
156.98.109.236 (DNS)
______________________________
Point this one (LECSERVER2) as primary DNS server to itself and secondory to
156.98.109.208
LECSERVER2
156.98.109.236
156.98.109.208 (DNS)
156.98.109.236 (DNS)

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"Cindy B" wrote:

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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