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2003 SBS DC

Asked by: cheesebugah

Hello,

I have a single DC in a small domain that for some unknown reason today decided to quit being a DC.  I cannot connect to AD User and Computers or any other AD snap in.  I get this error:

Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

If I click OK to this error message the snap in opens.  If I right click on the domain and click on connect to domain controller and enter the correct parameters, I can see all of the OU's, users, computers and such.  I have run dcdiag and the main theme is there is no GC.  If I check to see what the GC is set to, it says ERROR.  I am typing this from memory, so bear with me.  I have seen numerous posts on this subject both here and on the net, but really no solutions.  Well, none that have worked for me.  The DC is pointing to itself for DNS, DNS appears fine to me.  I am tempted to just run DCPROMO and get it over with but am fearful I'll lose Exchange and all of the current AD settings.  If I have to I will and just reconfigure, but would prefer not to.  Has anyone seen this scenario and actually fixed it?

Thanks,
Cheese

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2009-11-04 at 16:08:10ID24873090
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SBS Small Business Server

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Active Directory

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Domain Name Service (DNS)

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Answers

 

by: MPECSIncPosted on 2009-11-04 at 16:23:32ID: 25745661

Please post an IPConfig /all

Also post a DCDiag in a second post.

Philip

 

by: cheesebugahPosted on 2009-11-04 at 16:58:45ID: 25745861

MPEC SInc,

I will first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
Cheese

 

by: cheesebugahPosted on 2009-11-11 at 15:44:26ID: 25800355

Hello,

Well, we figured out what happened.  Somebody plugged the old GC back into the network and everything went to hell.  Apparently the new GC did the old tombstone thing on us.  The guy who put in this new server did not demote the original GC before just simply unplugging it.  Anyhow, I apologize for wasting your time.

Thanks,
Mike

 

by: MPECSIncPosted on 2009-11-11 at 15:52:20ID: 25800407

No worries.

Philip

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