Win2003 Server Setup

I am trying to setup a domain using Win2003 for my home network. I have successfully used the "Manage Your Server" wizards to setup a Domain Controller, a DNS Server, and a DHCP server.

My whole network sits behind a WRT54G router that currently has its DHCP server turned off. The nework is assigned private ip addresses and I have manually setup DNS on all machines using the new DNS server (it is on the same box as the server 192.168.1.11)

I am trying to add one of my machines (192.168.1.14) to the domain , so I went to the System applet in control panel and choose "Computer Name" and attempted to change from workgroup to domain. When I do this, I keep getting this error:

The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.(domainname)

Common causes of this error include the following:

- The DNS SRV record is not registered in DNS.

- One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child zone:

(domainname)
. (the root zone)

I have tried googling this, but I haven't found much about it yet. any ideas would be much appreciated.

-Rob

If you provide the real domain names and zone names it might help. There exists potential to create some conflicts using certain domain and zone names.

Also, you mention your server is static IP. That's good. If not, a lot of DNS entries won't get created. Do you have the server pointing to itself as it's own DNS server? It should be, because it will need to register and create a bunch of child zones under your domain's zone. When you open up DNS, do you see the following child zones: _msdcs, _sites, _tcp, _udp?

Is the zone AD integrated? If so, does it allow secure and non-secure dynamic updates?

Rob23 said:

I am trying to add one of my machines (192.168.1.14) to the domain , so I went to the System applet in control panel and choose "Computer Name" and attempted to change from workgroup to domain.

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Instead of using the "Change" button, have you tried the "Network ID" to use the wizard for joining the computer to the domain?

In DMSMGMT console, I see this:

Win2003 (name of Server)
Forward Lookup Zones:
_msdc.robhuffman.net
robhuffman.net

Reverse Lookup Zones
(Nothing)


When active directory was created, the DNS server was setup automatically for me. The only thing I have done since then, is configure my other pcs, using the new dns server. I did look in the TCP/IP properties of the server and can verify that it is using itself as the DNS server as well.

Does this help?

-Rob

If you haven't already, reboot the DC at least once more. You should see the zones _msdcs, _sites, _tcp, _udp as children of the robhuffman.net zone. The server should register entries in those zones for ldap and kerberos.

Also, check the properties of the zones. I'd recommend that they be Active Directory Integrated, and at this point in time have them allow secure and non-secure dynamic updates. In the future when everything is working right, then you can change over to allowing secure dynamic updates only. The problem with making them secure right now is that it might prevent the DC itself from registering the proper entires and child zones.

You should also have SOA records in the zones for the server as well.

Good luck.