replace old 2000 PDC

[jimmyjiang]

hi,

my PDC 2000server is old,and I try to replace it , the other 2000 server domain controller is still reponse for login and create new user account, trust ..., but I find the "Domain controller security policy"and "domain security policy" is not working, how can I make this domain controller totally replace the PDC?

I tried to transfered 5 FSMO to the other DC, but I get these kinds message in event viewer:

The checkpoint with the PDC was unsuccessful. The checkpointing process will be retried again in four hours. A full synchronization of the security database to downlevel domain controllers may take place if this machine is promoted to be the PDC before the next successful checkpoint. The error returned was: The RPC server is unavailable.

(I checked RPC & RPC locator ,they are all running,and even I restart them ,still same)

The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from QUEENS to QUEEN for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain using the DNS name queens.rcd.com. FRS will keep retrying.

Following are some of the reasons you would see this warning.

[1] FRS can not correctly resolve the DNS name queens.rcd.com from this computer.

[2] FRS is not running on queens.rcd.com.

[3] The topology information in the Active Directory for this replica has not yet replicated to all the Domain Controllers.

No Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller is available for domain X3D. The following error occurred:

There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.

(I restarted Netlogon service,it still same.)

Security policy in the Group policy objects are applied successfully.

Replication of license information failed because the License Logging Service on server queens.x3d.com could not be contacted.

any indea?

thanks in advance!

[Marsden]

Use the migration tool and migrate to Win 2003 Server. After the migration check to see if everything migrated properly. Then take the old Win2K PDC offline.

[jimmyjiang]

that's what I though and did, but during the mirgration , the new 2003 server keep looking for the PDC of the old domain, so I thought maybe I should make the 2nd 2000 server in old domain PDC first then I can complete the migration job.

any suggestion?

[valter]

You have a problem with replication. There can be many reasons for the replication problem, but the most common is multihomed domain controllers (DC with more than 1 NIC) .... install Windows 2000 support tools and use replmon.exe to monitor replication and possibly pinpoint the problem ... if you have a multihomed DC, remove one of the network cards and then try to reinitiate replication ... once you get replication up and running the rest of the story is piece of cake ... as far as migration is concerned, I would rather upgrade existing working w2k domain to 2k3 ... if you decide to upgrade instead of migration, cosult this article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;325379