In my case, this DC has NO FSMO roles and is not the root DC. It is pretty much dispensable in that regard. -- Vincent Avallone iBiquity Digital (410) 872-1535 -----Original Message----- From: James Winzenz [mailto:James.Winzenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:04 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work Before you do that, realize that you are trying to remove the domain root DC. Is this also your forest root domain controller? If you remove the forest root domain controller without previously building another one and moving the necessary roles, your AD is toast. If your child domain DC is having problems communicating with the parent domain, why don't you investigate the cause of your communication problems? Have you run dcdiag and netdiag on both the DC's to see if you can figure out what's going on? I hope this is in a test environment - you really don't want to be mucking around with AD like this in a production environment - you could really screw things up bad. James Winzenz, MCSE, A+ Associate Systems Administrator InovisTM, formerly Harbinger and Extricity -----Original Message----- From: Ron Leach [mailto:rleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:57 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work Still researching. I'm not as experienced as you guys are so I'm getting some outside help. The guy helping me is checking into these articles in the ms knowledge base: Q255229 and Q223787. Our setup is a parent domain with a child domain. The child is having trouble communicating with the parent. Thinking of demoting the pdc (parent) then promoting it back again. That's were the problem arises. It seems to be a dns issue. Ron Still puzzled :|=20 -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Vincent Avallone Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:38 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work What are you going to do? -- Vincent Avallone iBiquity Digital (410) 872-1535 -----Original Message----- From: Ron Leach [mailto:rleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=3D20 Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:34 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work We are having a similar problem in trying to demote a dc. Just doesn't want to work. ntdsutil won't work for us either. Any info is appreciated. Ron -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Vincent Avallone Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:06 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work I had this machine on another domain, I demoted it and added it to a different domain (needed the pc and didn't want to buy another one) now I have a ton of errors. Too many errors to try and fix them all so my thought was to start all over again. This is NOT the last DC in the domain. -- Vincent Avallone iBiquity Digital (410) 872-1535 -----Original Message----- From: slymax [mailto:groups@xxxxxxxxxx]=3D3D20 Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:52 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Demotion will just not work What are you trying to accomplish? (why are you demoting it if you want it promoted again) Also, is this the only DC in the domain? Steve -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent Avallone Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:43 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Demotion will just not work OK, I have looked everywhere I can think to try and figure out why I keep getting dns lookup errors when I try to demote my W2K DC. I have not found the answer. 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