Yes
that is the best way, but in order to dcpromo it again, you will first have to
remove it from the metabase of AD from another DC. There should be MS Technet Docs on how
to do this. Does anyone
know?
Justin A. Salandra,
MCSE
Senior Network
Engineer
Catholic Healthcare
System
914.681.8117 office
646.483.3325 cell
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The
machine has been rebooting itself in an edless loop for at least a
month. I just stumbled upon it because it's located in an area that
isn't visited much. I haven't seen anything weird in AD other than a
mention of not being able to replicate to all DCs in the site which may
explain why I was getting that error. Looks like it's back to doing the
same thing again. What is the best way to rebuild this guy? Wipe
it clean, reinstall W2K server then DCPROMO using the same name it
had?
Ken
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You
may have to cease the roll of that operation master to a different role for
the time being. It sounds like
the machine is just not liking you right now. What were you doing before this
happened on the machine?
Justin A.
Salandra, MCSE
Senior
Network Engineer
Catholic
Healthcare System
914.681.8117 office
646.483.3325 cell
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Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Interesting.
Well after playing around I figured out a way to "fix" the database on that
machine using eseututl This infact cleared up the inconsistancies
in the DB and now the machine will boot up but I can't login!
Administrator passwords don't work. It doesn't help that we don't know
much about this machine. I believe it is the forest and infrastructure
controller for our root domain.
Ken
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Your
restore won't mean anything if you do not go into ntdsutil and make that
servers copy of AD the authoritative copy that will be replicated to all other
servers.
Do all
the other servers have the same issue?
If they don't then I don't think it is an issue with AD, it may just be
an issue with the OS of the server or something else to that affect. Remember that if you end up having to
rebuild the machine, you need to clean up the metadatabase before re
dcpromoing the DC with the same name.
You only need to do this if you can't run dcpromo on the machine prior
to rebuilding it.
Justin A.
Salandra, MCSE
Senior Network
Engineer
Catholic
Healthcare System
914.681.8117
office
646.483.3325
cell
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Anyone
familiar with using the AD restore mode? I have an issue with a domain
controller that boots up to an error stating that SAM initilization failed
because AD couldn't start. Get a hex error 0xc00002e1. I've got a
few tech articles on the MS site but don't really address the issue. I'm
guessing that I'll need to restore the AD from a backup off of another
machine? Is this correct? And is authoratative the right way to go
in this case since this isn't the 1st DC in my domain I've got 3 or 4
others.
Thanks
Ken
