Article ID: 288237
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q288237
SYMPTOMS
After you run Dcpromo.exe on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based domain controller (DC), one or more of the following events may be logged in the event log, and the server for NIS and possibly the server for NFS services may not start or function correctly:
CAUSE
This issue can occur after a Windows 2000-based DC (with the Services for Unix version 2.0 Server for NIS) is demoted to a member server by using Dcpromo.exe. NIS support requires that Services for Unix (SFU) be installed on a DC.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, use the SFU 2.0 MSI Wizard to remove Server for NIS before you demote the Windows 2000-based DC. If you have other SFU NIS DCs and you want to restore the computer as an SFU NIS server, promote the server back to a DC, and then reinstall SFU NIS to resolve the issue. Because the NIS data is stored in Active Directory, it will still be available from the other remaining DCs in your domain.
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