dcpromo won't work (new credentials?)

[ffoschiatti2]

I've just installed a new W2K server on a clean computer, also installed sp4 and ie6sp1.

after setting my NIC with a static ip adress (10.0.0.1) everything works OK.

When I try to promote te server to a DC, I run the DCPROMO tool.

When the DCPROMO wizard is about to end, and begins creating the files, there's a message asking me for "new credentials", what does this mean?

(This only happens when I try to specify the Directory database and log to a path different from the default, when I use the default path, I get no error message and the DCPROMO works OK)

Thanks in advance!

 

[mlichstein]

What path did you specify for the logs and database?

 

[ffoschiatti2]

E:\ for both.

 

[ffoschiatti2]

BTW, E:\ is a recently created NTFP partition, it's empty, and has just been succesfully formatted. It's in the same physicar hard disc as the system partition (c

thanks

 

[mlichstein]

That wont work. You have to put the database in a sub-directory, not on the root directory of a partition.

So E:\NTDS\NTDS.dit would work, not E:\NTDS.dit.

 

[ffoschiatti2]

Thanks!