Re: the interface is unknown
- From: "Henrik" <henrik_the_boss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:05:14 +0200
Windows 2003 does support Windows 2K domain controllers, if it hasn't yet
been fully promoted to Windows 2003 functional level.
When Windows 2003 AD is first installed, it is installed in Mixed Mode, bot
for the domain and the forrest.
If the domain/forrest has been upgraded to a clean Windows 2003 mode, then
you need Windows 2003 on all your DCs, as I belive the upgrade cannot be
reversed.
Check you forrest and domain functional level, which you do by opening the
AD Users and Computers MMC snapin, and then looking at the Properties for
your domain).
For more info, try searching for "domain functional level" at Google
(http://www.google.se/search?q=%22domain+functional+level%22&hl=sv&lr=&start
=10&sa=N)
// Henrik
"Michael" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1EC0C0E1-8D05-419F-B4C9-26638436274B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, I'm happy to say that I finally got past that interface error.
After a
> GOOD DEAL of investigation I narrowed it down to the netlogon service. To
> keep it short, the service was set to run with some previously configured,
no
> longer existant, user or something. In any case, when I took that out and
> reset it to the system I was finally able to at least get the server to
join
> the domain.
>
> Now I have a new issue that maybe you can help with.
>
> So the windows 2k is already part of the domain. I'm now trying to
promote
> it to a secondary controller on a Win 3k AD Domain. When I try to run
> DCPROMO on it everything starts out looking fine but after a couple of
> minutes it errors out. The error is as follows: (in brief) The
> Activdirectory Installation Failed. "The version of the operating system
> installed on this server is incompatible with the functional level of the
> domain or forest". Does this mean I can't have 2k contollers, that they
must
> all be 3k?
>
> I've run dcdiag and everything checks out but for rplocator server, trkwks
> and trksvr which are flagged as not running on the DC. In netdiag
everything
> checks out but for kererboes with an error "Kerberos does not have a
ticket
> for 'X'". X being the PC I'm trying to promote. Oh, and I have my DNS
> configured just as you said I should. I'm not an expert on DNS but I've
also
> come to realize that it's the source of a lot of problems so I give as
much
> attention as I can to it.
>
> "Miha Pihler [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Try to first add this new computer to domain. After the computer is in
> > domain reboot it and then run dcpromo on it.
> >
> > Few other things to check/do.
> >
> > Where does DNS point to on this computer? Make sure that new server
points
> > to 192.168.0.21 for DNS. Also make sure that your existing domain
controller
> > points back to itself for DNS (preferred DNS IP address under TCP/IP
should
> > be 192.168.0.21).
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > --
> > Mike
> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
> >
> > "Michael" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:8CAE0DC9-9744-4F65-AACA-9E9B43F47E2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I've recently upgraded my domain from a NT 4.0 to 2003 active
directory.
> > > This was quite the process but it seems, thus far, to have completed
> > > successfully. I am now in the process of adding a secondary domain
> > > controler,
> > > a Windows 2000 Server, but upon trying to do so I get the following
error
> > > "the
> > > interface is unknown". I am using dcpromo and selecting the option of
> > > joining an existing domain.
> > >
> > > The DCPROMO starts out looking like it's going to work but about two
> > > minutes
> > > into the process of transforming the Win 2K server into an AD server,
as a
> > > secondary controller of the existing domain, I get that error. I can
see
> > > there is communication going on between the two devices 'cause if I
put in
> > > the wrong password to join the existing domain I immediatly get back a
> > > password error.
> > >
> > > I've read up on the subject and I'm thinking that it might have to do
> > > something with DNS but I'm not sure just what it is. I don't have any
> > > Reverse Lookup Zones established and even thought AD does not need
them,
> > > as I
> > > have it understood, I've read other things to indicate otherwise. Of
> > > course,
> > > I really don't know just how I would configure the RLZs.
> > >
> > > My Win 3K server is 192.168.0.21 and is also the DNS server. The
server
> > > I'm
> > > trying to import is 192.168.0.20 and is currently a stand alone server
in
> > > a
> > > workgroup.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
.
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