FSMO server roles transfer problem 1

[Pav4o]

Hi all!
I hope that somebody can advice me to fix the problem with transfering the roles.
I have one win2k adv.server and it was the only server in my network.Today i installed the second one and made it additional domain controler.After that i wanted to transfer the FSMO roles from the first to the second one and here is the problem.When i open the "Active users and computers" and try to connect to the second DC i have this message:
"RPC server is unavailable".What does in mean?
In "Services" RPC services are started.Are there any tricks?
10x in advance

 

[Lee168]

make sure your second DC is a GC and the first one isn't. Normally if you have 2 DCs, You can't transfer the whole FSMO to another DC. What you can do is to have the second DC holding the GC and the first one as master domain. unless you want to decommissioned the first DC.

 

[Pav4o]

Thank U for your answer!
I will try that as soon as i back to the office ,but I didn't understand why I can't transfer the whole FSMO?
Let's suppose that i need to reinstall the server but i want to keep all domain settings and for this purpose I can use the temp machine to which i will transfer the FSMO.Is there any problem with this?
In fact my idea is to divide the FSMO roles to reside on different DCs according some MS papers.

 

[buddafish]

yes you can transfer all the roles. if your 1st upgraded server died, you would have to seize all the roles from another dcv with the ntdsutil utility. transfer them thru the active directory users and computers, active directory domains and trusts, and the schema snap-in (which is hidden by default). or you can use the command line with ntdsutil here too.
if i remember correctly, you want to keep all the domain specific FSMO's on one machine and you can move the schema and domain naming master to others.

scottie