Re: Major help needed

I would reccomed that you use the NTDSUTIL to remove the old DC/GC from your
active directory, and then use the NTDSUTIL to promote the new DC as a GC
server.

Also agree with the previous post. Run NETDIAG /FIX, also run DCDIAG /FIX
(on both servers if you can)

Drum on .. .. . . .

"athos_01" wrote:

On Mar 20, 9:15 am, Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote:
Hello athos_01,

Please post an unedited ipconfig /all from all DC/DNS servers. Also run dcdiag
/v, netdiag /v and replmon on all DC's.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I am the tech person for a small k-12 school. Above average
experience, but have gotten myself into a big situation.

I have a small domain of windows 2003 servers. One server I have had
running for several years, but started flaking out. I removed all of
it's roles to another DC, except Global Catalog. I added another
machine as GC and just left it that way. Now what has happened is
that the original server has had major issues, so far as not even
being able to log into it, so I assumed everything was gone, so I took
it offline never to be returned. If I couldn't log into it, I
couldn't demote it so I tried to go through ASDI Edit and removed the
server manually from the domain. Everything should be good. not so
good.

What I find out is that nobody can see the other global catalog
server. The tick is there, it shows in DNS as being a GC, if I remove
the tick, it removes itself through DNS, so I know that DNS is
working, but nobody can use it as a GC. I have another DC that I
tried to do this with as well, and it does the same thing. If I run
DCDiag on the GC server, it comes out with no problems, if I run it on
another server that isn't the GC, it shows that it can't find the GC.

Only way I was able to get people logging back into the network and my
Exchange server to work again was to turn on the old machine,
eventually it registered itself back into DNS as a DC and GC and
people were able to log in and exchange came back up. But... Since I
manually removed it from the domain, there are no NTDS settings so it
isn't replicating and isn't completely visible as a Domain controller
even though it is handling logon and logoff requests. I tried doing
dcdiag /fix hoping it might, but didn't fix anything. I thought that
I could bring up another server as a DC and hope that it would promote
as a GC as if the other two had problems and a clean one wouldn't, but
I get an error on promotion that it can't create settings on remote
DC, being the one that I can't do anything with.

I would really like it if somebody could hlep me out. I really do not
want to have to rebuild an entire domain, and I do not have any good
backups of the bad DC. Being a small school district funding is no
there for professional help nor doing things the correct way. Any
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***BAD DC

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : mhsfour

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

marceline.k12.mo.us

k12.mo.us

mo.us



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI
For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-DA-84-4A-E7

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.50

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

****DC 2


Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : mhssix

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

marceline.k12.mo.us



Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter
for VMnet8

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.88.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter
for VMnet1

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.100.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 PM Network
Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-20-8F-2E-D0

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.12

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

****DC 3

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : msd1

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

marceline.k12.mo.us

k12.mo.us

mo.us



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network
Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0B-DB-57-88-9D

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast
Ethernet NIC

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-40-33-E2-95-4E

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 204.185.x.x

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 204.185.x.x

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 204.185.x.x

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1


****DNS / Firewall Server

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : mhstwo

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : msd.marceline.k12.mo.us

marceline.k12.mo.us

k12.mo.us

mo.us



PPP adapter RAS Server (Dial In) Interface:
.

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