Hi guys,
There are a number of problems I am having as follows:
1. The domain controller (DC) cannot be access by the other machines on the domain. the error from the other machines is "there is no server avaliable to service this logon request".
2. When i try to open the Active Directory (AD), i get an error stating "naming information cannot be located. The specific domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. Contact you administrator to verify that the domain is properly configured and is currently online"
3. When opening the Domain and DC security policy, i get this error "Fail to open the group policy object. you may not have approperiate rights. Detail: the network path was not found"
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-There is an error in the Directory Service event log stating that "unable to establish connection with global catolog"
-In App Log error "Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. Return value (1355)."
-The sysvol folder is not shared (note: each time i restart the dc, it unshares the sysvol folder but once i share it AD and the policies gives not error)
-there were two DC called them DC1 and DC2. DC1 - PDC and DC2 - RID
i transfer roles to DC2 from DC1 and demoted DC1 and take it off the network. I did not restart the DC2 at the same time but everyting was working. I restarted it on Friday but since then I was having problems getting the machines to access the DC2 which is not the PDC with all 5 roles.
Note: I can browse the other machines from the DC but the machines cannot access the DC with the error stated earlier.