max2479

Hello ALL have a network with one DC running windows 2000. Would like to promote Windows 2003 as DC. Run adprep /forestprep and /domainprep on Windows2000 before running dcpromo on windows 2003. Windows 2003 server is joined to the domain but gets an error when running dcpromo. The Operation failed because" The Active directory installation Wizard cannot continue because forest is not prepared for installing Windows Server 2003. Use Adprep command-line tool to prepare both the forest and the domain. For more information about using Adprep, see AD help. "The version of the Active Directory schema of the source forest is not compatible with the version on this computer". I tried to run it again to prepare the dcpromo and i got this: Running domainprep ... Domain-wide information has already been updated. [status/Consequence] Adprep did not attempt to rerun this operation. I have done this in the past where one DC is 2000 and I was promoting 2003 it worked fine. So it should not be a problem. PLEASE HELP

Hello All, We have 5 domains. LA is a Parent domain DC, SG, HK and BE are Child domains. Windows 2003 server all across. Suddenly I am not able to see any of the Child domains being in LA. When I open the network neighborhood I can see only LA and no others. When any user from la logs in to the LA domain on his PC they can click on domain name drop down and they can see all domains from there. We can ping all servers in all domains and we can access them. From the workstation we can also do the \\domainname\sysvol to any of the child domains Users from child domains DC, SG, HK and BE are able to see all domains no problems. I have verified the DNS and Domain trust. All looks OK. What else can be wrong here? PLEASE HELP Max issue is resolved. master browse was not configured with WINS