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Problem promote BDC to PDC
Name: John12 Date: January 27, 2004 at 09:27:59 Pacific OS: NT 4.0 sp6 CPU/Ram: 440/512
Comment:
I am trying to add a new server to the existing domain as an NT4.0 BDC. Once i have installed it, the PDC and BDC sync fine and communicate fine. I try to promote the new BDC to a PDC and in doing so the the old PDC (now BDC) can't communicate with the new PDC. Under server manager on the new PDC everything looks good but on the Other BDC they can't even open server manager without getting communication error saying it can't communicat with the PDC. From those servers, i can ping and map drives to the new PDC and vise-versa but i still cant open user manager or server manager on the BDCs. All of the servers are SP6.
On another note, this new PDC will eventually be upgraded to Windows 2003.
Name: John12 Date: January 27, 2004 at 13:15:24 Pacific
Reply:
Found the issue, the PDC was hard coded in LMHOST. Fixed.
John
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: January 27, 2004 at 20:33:26 Pacific
Reply:
Well that was a good one. Wouldn't have thought about the lmhosts file. But in tracking DNS and name resolution that certainly would be a close first stop.
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