If you are trying to promote a member server of a 2k domain, you have to be
logged on as the domain admin account. The domain admin account will have
the proper authority.

Are you logged on as a local admin or domain admin?

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel L. Miller [mailto:dmiller@;amfes.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:55 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Promoting to domain controller

I'm trying to promote a member server to a domain server.  Running
dcpromo, I answer the prompts appropriately, and then I get an error
message:

Unable to modify the properties for machine account WHATEVER$
Access denied

I've entered the (only) administrator password.  I've tried making the
administrator a member of just about every group.  I've tried removing
the server from the domain, and then re-joining.  I've sucessfully
created a new domain on this server as a child domain of my original
domain - and then removed that child domain.  What is causing this?

Daniel

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