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I have two Domain Controllers in my domain; both running Win2k Server. When I make an Active Directory update (e.g. add a user) on the first Domain Controller that I had set up, that update almost immediately appears in the AD of the second Domain Controller. However, if I make a similar...

I have 2 Win2000 servers each acting as DCs with both running DHCP and DNS and one running Wins. My problem is figuring out the DNS settings on the two machines. I am not authoritative for my domain however, from what I understand, I need to run DNS locally in order for active directory (and...

Thanks to both of you for your input. It did end up being a DNS issue. I didn't have the original DC set to update DNS dynamically. Once I made that change and then restarted, apparently the necessary DNS entries were added for the DC as DCPROMO ran on the Member Server without problem...

I am running a caching DNS server on my current domain controller. The Member server points to the current domain controller for DNS. Since I can ping the domain controller using it's fully qualified domain name, doesn't that tell me that my DNS entries are correct?

I have a Win2k Member server in my domain that I am trying configure as a second domain controller but I can't get the DCPROMO utility to complete the install. The steps that I've been following are: First I logon on to the Member server using the domain admin account. I then start the...