[windows2000] Re: Windows Server 2003 upgrade
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:42:20 +0200
Neil Bullock <> wrote on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:27 PM:
If connecting via ip works, but via names (FQDN) doesn't it may indicate a
DNS-problem. Check your DNS too, look for SOA-lines (IIRC...) and that your
DCs are properly regged there.
I assume you don't use dhcp to add an ip to your DCs? 8-]
The server where ADSS works correctly, is that the 1ry DC?
Also make sure netbios over tcp/ip in the network settings is *not* unchecked.
I've seen all kinds of unspecific policy problems (for starters...) when the
DCs don't use netbios over tcp/ip.
HTH.
> Hi,
>
> OK, you seem to be on to something. I can't even get into ADSS, it
> says:
>
> Naming information cannot be located because:
> The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
>
> On the other domain controller, ADSS works fine and I can see the
> problem DC's NTDS settings. It also works on the problem DC if I
> connect ADSS to the IP address of the server.
>
> Also, I was wrong about the group policy processing errors - they
> weren't fixed by SP1, but they were fixed by this: http://support.
> microsoft.com/?id=839499
>
> That involved restarting a lot of services, which may have left the
> domain in a dodgy state (I don't think everything stopped or started
> properly). In fact, everything seems to be linked to that knowledge
> base article. Unfortunately, while it did cure the file sharing
> problems, we still can't access event viewer/services remotely, and
> aparrently can't access group policy at all on that problem DC.
>
> I'll reboot it and see what happens.
>
> Neil.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: 08
>> August 2006 12:27 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows Server 2003 upgrade
>>
>> Neil Bullock <> wrote on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:16 PM:
>>
>> Are you sure the upgrade went fine? If you open up Active directory sites
>> and services (ADSS) and go to your site, can you see the NTDS settings,
>> the 1ry DC should have two entries and the 2ry DC sgould have one,
>> pointing to the 1ry
>> IIRC.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Yep, they can ping each other fine. All other network activity seems
>>> to be fine. ISA is also installed on the problematic DC and I can use
>>> that fine.
>>>
>>> RPC services also seem fine.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent:
>>>> 08 August 2006 12:00 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows Server 2003 upgrade
>>>>
>>>> Neil Bullock <> wrote on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:34 PM:
>>>>
>>>> Are the DCs talking to each other? Can you ping them?
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday, I upgraded our first domain controller to 2003 from 2000.
>>>>> Went fine. Excellent. I was surprised, as it holds all the main FSMO
>>>>> roles and stuff. Pleased by this success, I went on to upgrade another
>>>>> 2000 DC (a domain controller in another domain) to 2003.
>>>>>
>>>>> Copied files fine, rebooted, then blue screened. I went into the
>>>>> recovery console, and stopped some services and drivers, and got it to
>>>>> boot, and it completed the installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today, I find that people logging on to that domain are randomly
>>>>> unable to access shares. Netlogon doesn't work for most people, so no
>>>>> logon scripts run. No other shares work unless you map a drive, and
>>>>> most of the time that asks for a user/password and rejects whatever you
>>>>> enter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, I can't access event viewer remotely, or services manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unable to find anything relevant in the event log (there are a lot of
>>>>> errors relating to the processing of group policy, but that seems to
>>>>> have been fixed by SP1).
>>>>>
>>>>> So, any ideas where to start on this? I'm fresh out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Neil
>>>
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