RE: Multiple domain controllers in SBS 2003 R2

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Hi Robert,

My first email was rejected because of its size. I have divided it into 3
smaller ones and sent again. Have you received anything yet?

Thanks a lot!

Jun

"Robert Li [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Jun,

I have not received your logs yet.

I am looking forward to hear from you.

Best regards,

Robert Li(MSFT)

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<Thank you both for the answers. I will try to work on the DHCP first and
let
<you know the result ASAP. Thanks again!
<
<"Jun" wrote:
<
<> Hi guru,
<>
<> We are running into an issue on our Small Business Server 2003. Every
hour
<> or so it pops up an error message saying:
<>
<> Event ID: 1012
<> Description:
<> Multiple domain controllers running Windows Server 2003 for Small
Business
<> Server have been detected in your domain. This computer will shut down
in 60
<> minutes unless you remove all but one of these from the domain.
<>
<> Then after 60 minutes the SBS machine is shut down.
<>
<> I searched this site and found 2-3 similar topics, but none seems to
work in
<> our environment. I also followed the instruction in the post "Every 2 or
3
<> days sbs server stops responding", but those steps do not help either.
So
<> here is a brief explanation of our environment. Hopefully we can get
this
<> issue fixed ASAP.
<>
<> We have a SBS2003 server (out of box from Dell, 5 CAL, no addition
license
<> applied), which serves as the one and only server in the local domain.
We
<> have also 4 desktops running XP Professional in the domain. The SBS
machine
<> has only 1 NIC card. Every machine is connected to a switch, which
connects
<> to a Comcast router. The router serves as a DHCP server, and connects to
the
<> internet.
<>
<> There is another W2003 server (Standard) in the network, but it is not
in
<> the domain. I have also removed it physically from the network, but the
issue
<> still occurs. So I assume it has nothing to do with the issue.
<>
<> I am not sure whether it is related or not, but when I look at the
Forward
<> Lookup Zones, I saw two zones: domain.local and -ms....domain.local. In
the
<> domain.local zone, I always see 2 IPs: One is the IP of our SBS machine,
<> 10.X.X.X, and the other is some strange IP 169.X.X.X, which I have no
idea
<> where it is from. Every machine in the domain has a 10.X.X.X IP. I can
not
<> see where this 169.X.X.X IP comes from. The W2003 Server that I talked
about
<> above is a static IP machine, which uses an external DNS server provided
by
<> Comcast. I tried to delete this 169.X.X.X IP from the zone as well as
the
<> DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones. The strange thing is after a while
this IP
<> will be added back to the zones automatically. I followed the
instructions in
<> the post "Every 2 or 3 days sbs server stops responding" to create a new
<> forward zone, then immediately I saw the 169 IP there.
<>
<> Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Please let me know if you need
<> further information. Thanks!
<


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