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One forest, two child domains, three subnets

I need some serious help.....

I have been charged with setting up two separate domains that will share resources and reside on the same forest yet have thier own subnets. Is this possible?

I have setup a 2008 forest. I am trying to set up one of the 2008 child domains but of course during dcpromo, the new dc doesn't see the forest because it is on a different subnet.

I can ping the forest server. All subnets have been created on the router and all can access the internet.

What am I doing wrong or missing? Anyone? Pleeeeeease......

Sasha Kranjac

You have network connectivity between the servers - the routing is working. Did you run ping using netbios, FQDN or IP address?
Is DNS working? Have you tried nslookup and checked if the name resolution works as it should?
The steps are:
1. verified and working connectivity (addressing, routers, gateways)
2. verified and working name resolution (names, FQDNs, name servers, services, DNS records...)
3. only when 1. and 2. are working flawlessly proceed setting up Active Directory

Please double check steps 1. and 2.

Can you post the error you get when dcpromo fails?

carolinasgirl28

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I am in the process of putting everything back (painstakingly) so that everyone can funcion Monday morning. I will have to try this again next weekend.

All servers are connected via fibre.
Could ping servers via ip address

The error I got from dcpromo was that the forest could not be contacted. I'm assuming because the server was on another subnet?

Sasha Kranjac

I suspect that it might be a name resolution issue (DNS) because you have connectivity and DC still could not be contacted.

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Brad Held

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