Verifying if server is a domain controller?

[Fox1977]

Hi there,

We are running a windows 2003 network of 12 servers in our datacentre. We definitely have domain controller but people in our office are saying that two of the servers should be running as domain controllers. The problem is I know the second domain controller is not setup properly as i had to reboot the domain controller yesterday and when it was rebooting I could not authenticate on the network.

In the active director both of the servers are in the domain controllers OU. I don't think that the supplier has configured the second domain controller properly. All i think they have done is move the computer into the active directory OU.

How can I verifiy what they have done to try and get to resolve the issue so that the second servers works as a domain controller. Is it just a case of running DCPROMO on the second server?

Any tips and advice greatly appreciated.

thanks

john

 

[Davetoo]

If there in the DC OU, then they're DC's. What you need to do is set the second server up as a GC as well as the first for redundancy.

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[Fox1977]

The thing is though when the main domain controller (the one that i know works) was rebooted I was not able to authenticate when logging onto the domain. If the second server was a domain controller wouldn't I be able to log in ok?

Thanks for the help

 

[Roadki11]

Going to want that secondary server to be a secondary dns server also.

 

[lhuegele]

The thing is though when the main domain controller (the one that i know works) was rebooted I was not able to authenticate when logging onto the domain. If the second server was a domain controller wouldn't I be able to log in ok?

Did you give the server enough time after rebooting for all the services to come up? I'm not sure if DC's authenticate to anything but themselves. Did you check the error logs on both DC's to see if there are any clues in there?