Rodney, Try Deji's solution...do you have any mapped network drives on the server?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=106211 James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney Gardiner Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Promoting 2nd Domain Controller in AD (The Creden tials Supplied C onflict with an Existing set of credentials) James, Thanks for the advise - my concern is that it has been working as part of the domain for some time now. 1. When forced removed it simply became a member server of the domain. It was never taken right off of the domain back to being only a work group. 2. All our user shares are currently on this server that I wish to promote to be a DC and do not want to take it off the domain all together, change its name and then add it back to the domain with another name as all login scripts and drive mappings to this server would need updating. - Is there a way around this so that I can keep the same server name and not have to change login scripts and re-create shares again? 3. I have already used KB216948 to cleanup on the remaining DC. Does this need to be done on the failed DC as well? Rodney -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Promoting 2nd Domain Controller in AD (The Credentials Supplied C onflict with an Existing set of credentials) Rodney, If you used DCPROMO /FORCEREMOVAL ex DC should be on a workgroup if not put it on one...rename the server... Look at Q216498: Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain Controller Demotion. Clear up any entries pertaining to the "old" server. Then add server to the domain and then do a dcpromo. James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney Gardiner Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Promoting 2nd Domain Controller in AD (The Credentials Supplied C onflict with an Existing set of credentials) This is further to my previous problem about promoting but the Group Policy is fixed. I am now trying to promote the server that I forced removed as explain in my previous post and receive the error "The Credentials Supplied Conflict with an Existing set of credentials" I checked all drive mapping etc to see if there was a mapping to cause this error and there were none.... Well none visible. I used "NET USE" in a command prompt and it showed the following:- Status = OK Local = Remote = \\VLSEXCH2000.VANGUARD.COM.AU\SYSVOL Network = Microsoft Windows Network I have been told that this is because this particular server believes that it is still part of AD. I was also informed that there is a post on this site that explains how to do a registry hack to change a setting to make the server believe that it is just part of the domain and not part of AD. Once this change has been made I then has been informed to delete SYSVOL and NTDS folders. Not sure if a restart was required after this and then try the dcpromo and all should be fine. I can not find this post so can anyone please help me. Rodney P.S. I am now able to successfully promote other Win2000 Servers to be part of AD since the Group Policy has been fixed. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
