Linking Windows 2003 Active Directory

[IanNav]

Hi,

I am having some trouble connecting another Windows 2003 Server (standard edition) active directory to our Windows 2003 SBS server management active directory (which contains all of our user accounts).

When i go through the active Directory setup wizard on the windows2003 standard machine is comes up with the error message

"The operation failed because :

Active directory could not create the NTDS settings object for this domain controller CN=NTDS Settings, CN=<computer name>, CN=Servers, CN=Default etc etc, etc...

Ensure the provided network credentials have suffcient permissons."

Please can someone explain whats going wrong, or if there is anything i am doing wrong.

My objective is to connect to the Windows 2003 SBS user accounts and use them on new windows 2003 Standrd machine.

When i try to log onto the standard machine with a valid username/password from our domain it gives me the error message

"The system cannot log you on now becuase the domain <domain name> is not availble."

Please can anyone explain any of this?

Many Thanks

Ian

 

[justin42279]

Hi,

I'm not quite sure what your intentions are but if you want to make the windows 2003 standard server a member server then just right click on my computer and go to properties then click on the computer tab. Under that screen, hit change and just add it to the domain. After rebooting, it should look towards active directory for authentication.

Hope that helps.

Justin

 

[IanNav]

Justin,

Thanks for the reply.

I did do exactlyu what you said first, before even trying any of the above?

And i still get the massage

"The system cannot log you on now becuase the domain <domain name> is not availble."

What does that message mean?

 

[justin42279]

That message means that you are either having network connection problems or DNS may not be setup correctly.

Verify that you have network connectivity and IP address to DNS are setup correctly.