ok iam having trouble setting up a small domain to demonstrate DFS. i have installed windows server 2003 standard on to two computers and windows 2000 onto the desktop which will act as the client. I have setup one of the 2003 servers as a domain controller using active directory and i wish to set up the other server as a second domain controller as well as a file server, now here is the problem, when i attempt to join the seccond server to the domain it asks me to "please enter the username of a user who has permission to access this domain" so i enter a user that i have created on the first server and get an error message sayin "the specified user already exists" now this is very starage to me because if i try and connect to the domain with the client computer i can do it, using the same username that gives me the error with the seccond server.. it works fine... the user that i have created on the first server is part of the administrators group, and has all the correct security settings and rights... i need to connect the seccond server to the domain before i configure it as a domain controller and file server as i need to document the process... so can anyone steer me in the right direction or give me any clues as to what i'm doing wrong? thanks alot

Hi Rakem I have exactly the same problem. I would love to give you a hint, but I am lost too. Did you solve the problem meanwhile? How? Thanks for your response

na i havent solved it yet.. will be working on it all day today to try.. let me know if you fix it as well!

hey i managed to fix it! the problem was that in "Active directory users and computers" in the "domain controllers" folder i had the server in there as well as the primary server, now it wouldnt let me delete it from there so i just renamed the server and reset the computer and when i tried to join the domain it worked! hope this helps you