Microsoft KB Archive/177119

= Unable to Create Zones in DNS Manager =

Article ID: 177119

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q177119



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to create any zone in Domain Name Service (DNS) Manager, you receive the following error:

The new zone could not be created because there is already a zone by

this name.

Event Viewer on your DNS server may also log one or more of the following event messages in the System event log:

  Event ID   : 100 Source    : DNS Description: DNS server could not open the file 'zone name'.

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  Event ID   : 104 Source    : DNS Description: Could not open Database 'zone name' for DNS.

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  Event ID   : 150 Source    : DNS Description: Could not create 'zone name'.

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  Event ID   : 242 Source    : DNS Description: Encountered invalid Domain username.domainname.



CAUSE
The above issue may be caused by either of the following:


 * The user account that you are using to create the new zones contains one or more spaces in its name

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 * The built-in "SYSTEM" account does not have "FULL CONTROL" permissions on \System32\DNS\.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, perform one of the following:


 * Rename the current user account removing any spaces

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 * If you have an NTFS partition, verify that the built-in SYSTEM account has FULL CONTROL permissions on the %SystemRoot%\System32\DNS folder

Keywords: kberrmsg kbnetwork kbprb KB177119

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