DNS/Wins not working after change! rocketz21 5/6/2007 5:50:00 PM We moved the domain controller and changed the settings for the Wins/DNS and now neither the DNS/Wins is working. It won't let us add a new DNS zone without errors regarding the active directory. Is there some other address or setting I'm missing. Didn't think changing the new dns/wins ip address would make it not work at all. The roaming profiles won't load either. Did change the dns/wins on the workstation. Any help on this would be great.

Re: DNS/Wins not working after change! Lukas Beeler <lb-lists[ at ]projectdream.org> 5/6/2007 6:18:41 PM * rocketz21 <rocketz21[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>: [Quoted Text] > We moved the domain controller and changed the settings for the Wins/DNS and > now neither the DNS/Wins is working. It won't let us add a new DNS zone > without errors regarding the active directory. > > Is there some other address or setting I'm missing. Didn't think changing > the new dns/wins ip address would make it not work at all. The roaming > profiles won't load either. This doesn't sound very specific. First step, make sure that the DC can reach the other domain controllers (by pinging them). Look at the event log, see if there are any messages indicating a problem - there should be! Next step is to check DNS on the non-working domain controler, and compare it to DNS on the working domain controllers. Check replication using repadmin /showrepl from the support tools (on the first cd). Set the used DNS-Server on the non-working DC to a working DC. run ipconfig /registerdns, restart the netlogon service. If this doesn't resolve your issue, post ipconfig /all from all your domain controllers, plus error messages from your event log. -- Read my blog at http://projectdream.org

Re: DNS/Wins not working after change! rocketz21 5/6/2007 8:08:00 PM There is only one DC in the network. Currently the server has been stuck at "preparing network connections" for more than 25 minutes so I'll try my best with the errors. We stopped, then restarted DNS. After that all the DNS enteries were gone. There was a red x error over the Wins. I don't remember exactly the error in DNS (can't log on the server) there was a message about a group could not connect or contact active directory library. I know it's vague, but without getting it to boot up at the moment, it's the best info I have. We moved the DC to another location in a new data center. I changed the Wins ip add and modified a couple ip address in the DNS. When we booted it up again, it took a while to load and there immediately were problems with the wins and dns. All the data/settings in active directory are there and there doesn't appear to be any problems with it. "Lukas Beeler" wrote: [Quoted Text] > * rocketz21 <rocketz21[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>: > > We moved the domain controller and changed the settings for the Wins/DNS and > > now neither the DNS/Wins is working. It won't let us add a new DNS zone > > without errors regarding the active directory. > > > > Is there some other address or setting I'm missing. Didn't think changing > > the new dns/wins ip address would make it not work at all. The roaming > > profiles won't load either. > > This doesn't sound very specific. > > First step, make sure that the DC can reach the other domain > controllers (by pinging them). > > Look at the event log, see if there are any messages indicating a > problem - there should be! > > Next step is to check DNS on the non-working domain controler, > and compare it to DNS on the working domain controllers. > > Check replication using repadmin /showrepl from the support > tools (on the first cd). > > Set the used DNS-Server on the non-working DC to a working DC. > run ipconfig /registerdns, restart the netlogon service. > > If this doesn't resolve your issue, post ipconfig /all from all > your domain controllers, plus error messages from your event log. > > -- > Read my blog at http://projectdream.org >

Re: DNS/Wins not working after change! Lukas Beeler <lb-lists[ at ]projectdream.org> 5/6/2007 8:20:03 PM * rocketz21 <rocketz21[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>: [Quoted Text] > There is only one DC in the network. Currently the server has been stuck at > "preparing network connections" for more than 25 minutes so I'll try my best > with the errors. This actually makes it easier, because we can exclude Replication as an issue. > I know it's vague, but without getting it to boot up at the moment, it's the > best info I have. Just wait a few moments, it should come up at some point in time. Then, make sure to adjust all IP-Adresses in the DNS-Zone manually, if that is possible. If it is not, something else is wrong - without more input it's also very hard to tell. If it doesn't come up, try DSRM (F8 at boot). You won't be able to edit DNS data if you're using AD integrated zones, but you can review the event log. -- Read my blog at http://projectdream.org

Re: DNS/Wins not working after change! rocketz21 5/6/2007 9:06:01 PM Here is the main error message I'm receiving in event viewer: "active directory was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog" I also have tried uninstalling DNS and WINS and reinstalling it. "Lukas Beeler" wrote: [Quoted Text] > * rocketz21 <rocketz21[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>: > > There is only one DC in the network. Currently the server has been stuck at > > "preparing network connections" for more than 25 minutes so I'll try my best > > with the errors. > > This actually makes it easier, because we can exclude Replication > as an issue. > > > I know it's vague, but without getting it to boot up at the moment, it's the > > best info I have. > > Just wait a few moments, it should come up at some point in time. > > Then, make sure to adjust all IP-Adresses in the DNS-Zone > manually, if that is possible. If it is not, something else is > wrong - without more input it's also very hard to > tell. > > If it doesn't come up, try DSRM (F8 at boot). You won't be able > to edit DNS data if you're using AD integrated zones, but you can > review the event log. > > -- > Read my blog at http://projectdream.org >

Re: DNS/Wins not working after change! "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 5/7/2007 7:16:24 PM Read inline please. In news:42B361DC-B67B-4E88-9BFB-5BE2B64DEEEE[ at ]microsoft.com, rocketz21 <rocketz21[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > There is only one DC in the network. Currently the server has been > stuck at "preparing network connections" for more than 25 minutes so > I'll try my best with the errors. > > We stopped, then restarted DNS. After that all the DNS enteries were > gone. There was a red x error over the Wins. > > I don't remember exactly the error in DNS (can't log on the server) > there > was a message about a group could not connect or contact active > directory library. > > I know it's vague, but without getting it to boot up at the moment, > it's the best info I have. > > We moved the DC to another location in a new data center. I changed > the > Wins ip add and modified a couple ip address in the DNS. When we > booted it > up again, it took a while to load and there immediately were problems > with > the wins and dns. > > All the data/settings in active directory are there and there doesn't > appear > to be any problems with it. One DC? Did it IP address change? Is it using its own address for DNS and WINS? At the very minimum 127.0.0.1and then, on the Interfaces tab, set DNS to listen on all addresses. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps Send IM: http://www.icq.com/people/webmsg.php?to=296095728 =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================