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sure you need to be able to contact schema master to make an forestprep.<br />
are you using admin privilege?
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sure you need to be able to contact schema master to make an forestprep.
are you using admin privilege?

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Yes, you do have to be able to talk to the schema master, when the netdiag is run the Fsmo check verify the 5 roles found in the forest. &nbsp;YOu will need to verify that this server can communicate with each server listed.
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Yes, you do have to be able to talk to the schema master, when the netdiag is run the Fsmo check verify the 5 roles found in the forest.  YOu will need to verify that this server can communicate with each server listed.

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kevala,<br />
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Yes you are right. &nbsp;It was the DNS. &nbsp;I had the machine pointing to a 2 DNSs that I had setup as DNS1 and DNS2 in the same network, but it was not the DNS on the DC.<br />

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kevala,

Yes you are right.  It was the DNS.  I had the machine pointing to a 2 DNSs that I had setup as DNS1 and DNS2 in the same network, but it was not the DNS on the DC.


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I am installing exchange 2000. &nbsp;on a stand alone server as a member of the domain. when I try to run E:\Setup\i386\SETUP.EXE /ForestPrep . I get a message &quot;&nbsp;cannot contact the schema master......&quot; &nbsp;I was unable to find any info on MS knowledge base about that error.<br />
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I appriciate some help.<br />
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Joseph
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I am installing exchange 2000.  on a stand alone server as a member of the domain. when I try to run E:\Setup\i386\SETUP.EXE /ForestPrep . I get a message " cannot contact the schema master......"  I was unable to find any info on MS knowledge base about that error.

I appriciate some help.

Joseph

forrest prep error message

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