Re: Problem creating DFS roots

[Paul Bergson]

This questin would probably be best asked in the DFS groups. I have copied
them on this reply.

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"Chreag Anderson" <Chreag Ande...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hello
> We have a problem creating domain DFS roots which we can't resolve.
> We have AD running on two or our Win 2003 servers. We can create stand
> alone
> DFS roots which work fine, but would like to have the DFS integrated with
> AD.
> When we try to create a domain root, at the final stage of the process it
> comes back with the error;
> "The following error occured when creating DFS root on server xxx-xxx;
> The specific domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."
> The domain obviously exists as we have 200 users logging in to it every
> day!
> DNS is running on one of the servers with AD on it, and an nslookup of the
> domain name returns the IP address of the first server that has the DNS
> and
> AD on it.
> Does anyone know why we can't create domain DFS roots and/or how to go
> about
> sorting this?
> Thanks
> Chreag Anderson
> CTSU
> University of Oxford

[Alok Agarwal [MSFT]]

You are logged in as what user (domain admin, delegated admin if r2) when
trying to do the operation?

Does domain controller has DFS Service runnning?

Do you have any firewall or ports shutdown on the DC?

"Paul Bergson" <pbergson@allete_nospam.com> wrote in message
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[Chreag Anderson]

Thanks for the reply
I am logged in as the Domain Administrator.
Both DCs have the DFS service running
There is no firewall or port blocking on the DCs

If I do an nslookup on the domain name it replies with one of the DCs
The NetBIOS setting is at default. We have static IP addresses so this
should default to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

Thanks
Chreag Anderson