Adding a Win2k server to a Windows NT domain 1

[toolbox]

Hi. I hope someone can help me with this. I have a Windows NT box set up and running as our primary domain controller. I am tring to add a Windows 2000 server to this domain. I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 2000 server and everything is running including internet and networking (I can access the NT server thru network neighborhood). So I try and run Active directory wizard and no matter what option I pick, it still ask for user name, password and domain. I fill this info in and I get the following message:
The domain is not an Active directory domain or an Active directory domain controller for the domain could not be contacted.
I have set up a user on both machines called the same name and given them admin and domain admin rights.
Am I missing something here? Thanks for everyones help in advance.

 

[toni]

Hi toolbox!
I have the same problem as you, more or less, but my PDC is not a NT: it's a Win2K. I'm also trying to install Active Directory in an additional Win2K server, and I receive exactly the same error message as you.

By the way, I already began a thread with this question. It will be about the beginning of the forum (as I've been replied these days) and has the following subject:

"Problem installing a Win2K additional doamin controller. HELP, PLEASE!"

 

[toolbox]

Thanks Toni. I saw yours and it was what prompted me to start my own. I have read the replies to yours. Seeing mine was slightly different, I thought I would start a thread about this type of problem. I wish you luck and if I find out anything usefully I will pass it on. Again thanks for the reply!!!!!

 

[Trimmer]

You can NOT add a Win2K Server into an NT4.0 Domain as a DC or in NT4.0 Terms BDC. IT can ONLY be a member server. This is achieved NOT via Active directory , but through Computer properties, Network Identification. If you try Active Directory, you must have an AD up and configured with DNS.

 

[peterve]

that's correct,
you cannot add a Win2K domain controller to an existing NT4 domain.
NT4 = single master
Win2K = multiple master

YOu can have a mixed NT4 / Win2K environment, but your PDC has to be a Win2K box... Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

 

[toolbox]

Thank you for the info. And we have decided to go another route with our Win2k server. Again thanks for everything.

 

[mufka]

You could install your new server with NT 4 as a BDC and then upgrade to 2000 and install AD. You might have to promote your new server to a PDC before the upgrade. Not sure. I've been playing with this. Feedback welcome.

 

[a16]

make this windows 2000 server as seperate domain, and give trust and trusting relation ships for both the domains, so the resources can be shared.

srinivas reddy p

 

[kendaukcat]

OK...I ran into the same sceanario and think I pooched things a little bit. This was a NT 4.0 Domain with a PDC.

I brought a 2K server online via upgrade from NT 4.0 (installed NT 4.0, promoted to BDC, then PDC. Upgraded server to W2K)

I then ran dcpromo, and now I have a DC and a BDC...everything worked wonerfully right?

Wrong.

I forgot that I needed at least an 8 GB partition on the 2K sever for terminal serices. I only have four per the limitations of the initial NT 4.0 installation.

My question is this...is there any way of demoting a DC in a mixed environment when only a NT 4.0 BDC is left?

Or is using a partitioning app. like volume magic my only recourse.

Thnks in adavance,

Ken