global catalog server missing

[shirdisai]

intially we are having 2 domain controllers for the same domain xxx.com, one i formated and installed another domain xxy.com, unfortunatly the system that is formated is PDC,till now every thing is working fine, recently i tried to create one user,

error: unable to contact the global catalog server, so i try to make it a standalone server, which is showing the error. what i have to do to make it as BDC for the existing PDC

regards
satya prasad

 

[Davetoo]

Your post is hard to follow, so I'll try to help. First, there are no PDC's and BDC's in a W2K environment, there are only DC's. Certain DC's handle certain FSMO and other roles.

The first server that you dcpromo in a domain will automatically handle all of the FSMO roles as well as be a GC. If you need to designate another GC, you do this via Sites and Services in AD.

To add another server as a DC, just dcpromo it into the domain and then assign any additional roles you want the second DC to handle, such as being a GC.



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