Re: w2k3 sbs - dcpromo down-promote to workgroup problem

Nope, SBS *must* run AD and *must* be the AD root server in the domain.
From what you describe below, i does seem (at least on the surface) 
that SBS should be a good product for you.

At this point, I'd suggest wiping the server and reinstalling SBS and let it go through the setup as it expects to. Then join the workstations to the domain using http://server/connectcomputer. Then follow the information at http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons/archives/mac/index.shtml to configure the serve and the Macs to talk to each other (the biggest step here is giving your internal domain a name that does NOT end in ".local" but .lan or .office or something of the sort). Adn, of course, post here if you have questions along the way...

HTH...

-Eriq

On 2005-05-13 06:18:05 -0500, "=?Utf-8?B?YWxhbjI3OA==?=" <alan278@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Thanks for the response - I thought I might get that suggestion!
I have maybe 6 or so other WXP pro and home machines plus more wirelessd "guests" now and then... and MACs connecting wirelessly as well and I'd like them to be able to "share" the data on the machine running the server OS. Server machine also serves up web pages and ftp site...

It seemed from what I read that w2k3 SBS could be downgraded to (or installed as) a workgroup machine...

"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS M" wrote:

Hmmm. How about another angle? Join the workstations to the domain ;-).

SBS must be a DC, there is no workaround. You might have the wrong product with SBS, or you might have exactly the right product. How many users/computers do you have now, what OS's, any other servers?

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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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SBS Rocks !


"alan278" <alan278@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D91D3B9C-9C70-4D94-980B-A7D5BA34914F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
<<cross posted in win xp forum>>

Installed windows 2003 server (small bus) on a new machine in my workgroup
(no-domain) network.  Unfortunately set it up as a domain controller.

Tried down-promoting it via dcpromo... had various problems latest being
that it can't delete active directory because domain has a *child directory
partition*...

how to delete the child directory partition??

I find that the server machine has problems finding one of the workgroup
machines (used browstat confirmed that the server sees itself as the master
but workgroup machines see one of the workgroups as master)...

I also find that access to/from the server machine is extremely slow...
(especially
establishing the access)

I am hoping that down-promoting the w2k3 server machine to a workgroup
machine will help these network connection issues...

Or I could wipe it and reinstall more carefully setting it up as a workgroup
machine.

Thanks in advance for your help/ideas etc 


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Eriq Neale - MCSE, MCSA Messaging, MCP Small/Medium Business, Mac Guru
EON Consulting - www.eonconsulting.net
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