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Hi nagib,<br />
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As which user do you add the DC? Is he a member of the domain admin group? or enterprise admin?<br />
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Cheers!<br />
regards,<br />
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Trenes
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Hi nagib,

As which user do you add the DC? Is he a member of the domain admin group? or enterprise admin?

Cheers!
regards,

Trenes

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The event id 1168 occurrs while trying to add a new domain controller
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The event id 1168 occurrs while trying to add a new domain controller

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probably DNS - make sure your soon to be DC is only looking at the DC for DNS and no ISP entries
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probably DNS - make sure your soon to be DC is only looking at the DC for DNS and no ISP entries

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What is the Source on that error?<br />
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Post the entire Event Log error (you can use the notepad button to copy it to the clipboard then paste it here).<br />

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What is the Source on that error?

Post the entire Event Log error (you can use the notepad button to copy it to the clipboard then paste it here).


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Source is NTDS General, the event log error is in Portuguese, thats why I did not paste here. I think event id and source give enought info.<br />

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Source is NTDS General, the event log error is in Portuguese, thats why I did not paste here. I think event id and source give enought info.


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This should fix you up:<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232070" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232070</a><br />
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This should fix you up:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232070 [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232070]



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If it doesn't, then I need the error code in the log entry. &nbsp;It should be at the start of the text in the error description.<br />
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If it doesn't, then I need the error code in the log entry.  It should be at the start of the text in the error description.



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Crap....sorry about that Dragon - I just noticed I posted the same link as you! &nbsp;<br />
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Crap....sorry about that Dragon - I just noticed I posted the same link as you!  



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Event ID 1168.<br />
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I cannot add a secondary AD. I receive the Access denied message.
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Event ID 1168.

I cannot add a secondary AD. I receive the Access denied message.

Cannot add a second AD

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).