Delete a domain

[LeonBar]

I had a backup controller installed we had to remove the machine. My server still gives me errors lots of them, the error is NETLOGON seems to be looking for the planning domain we removed. How do you delete a domain that does not exist on the system?

thanks
Leon

 

[mattjurado]

So your BDC is giving you errors about not being able to contact the domain right? This is normal, its the way it was designed to work. If you want to use it a stand alone computer, or on another network, your best bet is to rerun throught the Windows setup, and designate it as a stand alone server (or if you want to make it a BDC on another domain, you can do that as well). You cannot "uninstall" a domain, the server's role is determined during setup.

Matt J.

 

[LeonBar]

I missed a step in the original question. This server was a BDC our PDC mother board fried. We promoted the BDC to a PDC. That worked great our users didn’t even know anything happened. The specific error I am getting is NETLOGON the text of the error is: No windows NT Domain Controller is available for Domain PLANNING. ( this event is expected and can be ignored when booting with the “No Net” Hardware Profile) the following error occurred: There are currently no login servers available to service the login request.

What we did was remove the Planning Domain controller and changed all the users to login to the main server. I can’t figure out why or what is trying to access the PLANNING domain, or why the server thinks the PLANNING domain still is there. We don’t have any old loging.bat files running on someone’s machine trying to hit the old server. Our log is getting about 30 to 50 messages a day with the same error. See what you got into by answering my question.

Leon