Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
change a domain or create a new one
Name: macattack03 Date: March 12, 2008 at 19:32:01 Pacific OS: server 2003 sbs CPU/Ram: intel xeon 1gb Product: unknown
Comment:
I have a used server machine with server 2003 sbs and i'm trying to reconfigure the machine to setup a domain for sharing files sharing a printer and gaming however when trying to change the domain the option is grayed out and i dont know how to go about making a domain do i need to reinstall server please help
Name: Zafar Iqbal (by ziqbal452) Date: March 12, 2008 at 21:41:45 Pacific
Reply:
Do u want to prepare a new domain controller??
or do u want to reinstall the existing one???
actualy when you promote a domain cont, then you can not change the NetBios name thats y u can not change the domain name. u can take back up of exiting AD and reinstall the server and again install the AD
after insatlling server then run dcpromo insatll DNS and DHCP services and restore the AD
zafar Iqbal
0
Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 13, 2008 at 06:39:21 Pacific
Reply:
You should stick with your original post, and not multi-post, which is not allowed on this site...
Summary: You know, unless you have very pressing reasons to get rid of the old one, the simple solution is to just set the new server up as another DC in the domain. This would provide redundancy as well as s...
Summary: Operations Master Roles The five operations master roles are assigned automatically when the first domain controller in a given domain is created. Two forest-level roles are assigned to the first doma...
Summary: Click Start -> Run, and in the Open: field type in "dcpromo" and click OK. This will launch an interactive configurator that will let you downgrade the server from a domain controller to a stand alone...
0 
how to setup a server
