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Add new computer with SBS 2003 to existing domain
We have added a new computer as what we hope will be a File Server to an existing domain. We installed Windows 2003 Server on the new computer hoping to add it to the domain (again just for file storage space) but now the new server is shutting down because it wants to be the domain controller. We don't need the new computer to do anything except be a file storage computer. The main server is running Windows 2003 Server.
Help!
Thanks
Kevin
Help!
Thanks
Kevin
Windows Server 2003
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kevin1000
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There can be only one SBS2003 server in a domain and it needs to be the primary domain controller for that domain. So if you want to use the SBS server you will need to make it the primary domain controller
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Thanks for the quick responses.
Does this same limitation exist with Windows 2000 Server? We own a copy of that. Can we put that on this new server and have it join the domain to do File Sharing?
Thanks again
Kevin
Does this same limitation exist with Windows 2000 Server? We own a copy of that. Can we put that on this new server and have it join the domain to do File Sharing?
Thanks again
Kevin
Windows 2000 is the same like adding a regular 2003 server to your domain, no limitations there
Ok you can put a 2000 server on an existing domain with no issues
You should be careful - if your 2000 license came WITH a machine, then you cannot install that either because it's almost certainly an OEM license which is to live and die with the hardware it came with.
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A little more detail on any other solution would have helped but otherwise it was what I was looking for. Thanks
You can add an SBS server to an existing domain - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453, but its not risk free and not recommended. Even then the SBS machine will have to become the DC and will have to have the FSMO roles moved to it.