Thank you soo much for all your replies. It has really helped me alot. I just wanted to share with you my findings. From Paul’s suggestion, i downloaded the DCDIAG utility and i would like to share with you what the outcome was after running the utilities on both the servers so that it would all give a better insight to my problem as well and then guide me accordingly.

My Domain name is called ABC.COM

Below is the result from SERVER01

Domain Controller Diagnosis

Performing initial setup:
Done gathering initial info.

Doing initial required tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-NameSERVER01
Starting test: Connectivity
SERVER01′s server GUID DNS name could not be resolved to an IP address. Check the DNS server, DHCP, server name, etc
Although the Guid DNS name
(7957a691-22d9-4049-880e-9624fa04f2c5._msdcs.ABC.com) couldn’t be
resolved, the server name (SERVER01.ABC.COM) resolved to the IP
address (192.168.1.1) and was pingable. Check that the IP address is
registered correctly with the DNS server.
……………………. SERVER01 failed test Connectivity

Doing primary tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-NameSERVER01
Skipping all tests, because server SERVER01 is
not responding to directory service requests

Running enterprise tests on : ABC.com
Starting test: Intersite
……………………. ABC.com passed test Intersite
Starting test: FsmoCheck
Warning: DcGetDcName(GC_SERVER_REQUIRED) call failed, error 1355
A Global Catalog Server could not be located – All GC’s are down.
……………………. ABC.com failed test FsmoCheck

Below is the Result of SERVER02:

Domain Controller Diagnosis

Performing initial setup:
Done gathering initial info.

Doing initial required tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-NameSERVER02
Starting test: Connectivity
5a5343cd-692f-471a-a61e-63eb7b54d7ad._msdcs.ABC.com’s server GUID DN
S name could not be resolved to an
IP address. Check the DNS server, DHCP, server name, etc
Although the Guid DNS name
(5a5343cd-692f-471a-a61e-63eb7b54d7ad._msdcs.ABC.com) couldn’t be
resolved, the server name (SERVER02.ABC.COM) resolved to the IP
address (192.168.1.2) and was pingable. Check that the IP address is
registered correctly with the DNS server.
……………………. SERVER02 failed test Connectivity

Doing primary tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-NameSERVER02
Skipping all tests, because server SERVER02 is
not responding to directory service requests

Running enterprise tests on : ABC.com
Starting test: Intersite
……………………. ABC.com passed test Intersite
Starting test: FsmoCheck
……………………. ABC.com passed test FsmoCheck

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It seems there is quite a mess here that i have to resolve. Please let me know your suggestions…i need help desperately…

Thank you all once again..i have learnt sooo much from all your responses and really appreciate it!!!

princess

I have same problem, and it’s a real pain in the …

Anyway, I think it’s because of the long URL in astronomer’s post (in this case). The TechTarget script doesn’t seem to wrap the URL’s in multiple lines (which is good), BUT now the rest of the text in ALL the other posts just take that new width as the overall width… As I said, a real pain.

Cheers

Hedgehog.

PS: Sorry PRINCESS8 I can’t help on the actual post; not my real area of expertise, but still like to quietly read these posts and great answers.

Is there a reason that the discussion on this (and some
other) threads shows up so wide on my browser?

I have to scroll left and right to read all of the posted
comments. This doesn’t happen on all posts, just some of
them. Any clue?

Thanks, Bob

- And now we continue with our feature presentation…

Let me see if I can help.

1st off let’s determine if you have two DCs. In Active Directory, there is no such thing as PDC…only DCs which are “created equal” and have R/W AD capabilities.

Here’s a quick & easy way to determine if your Server is a DC or Member Server. Go to “Computer Management” if “Local Users/Groups” (which uses a the SAM database) has a “red X” through it or “does not exist”…then you have a DC.

All Domain Controllers (DCs) are equal “kinda”…by default the 5 FSMO Roles by default they all reside on the Forest Root Server (the 1st DC installed in the Forest):

Schema Master (Admin Tools | Active Directory Schema)
Domain Naming Master (Admin Tools | AD Domains & Trusts)
RID Master(Admin Tools | AD Users & Computers)
PDC Emulator (“)
Infrastructure Master(“)

You can use the GUIs mentioned above or use the “NTDSUTIL” command line utility to Transfer “Roles” to/from DCs. The transfer of roles while the DCs are live will not effect your Users and it will not require a reboot.

Hope this helps.

- Roni

Incidentally, if you are thinking of moving the FSMO roles to another server – I would suggest moving them all to server02 as it appears to be the one working correctly at this point.

Paul