PDC went down and there was not another in domain. Made another server in that domain a DC and when I put the the primary back (from the backup) I get this message "The director service was unable to allocate a relative identifier" That's all the error I get. If you need more info please let me know. Server 2003

Hi, Please confirm if I get you right, You had only 1 DC and that went down? So you ended up with a domain without DC? So you create a new DC what means you created a new domain. Is this right? Or did you have more DC's and the DC with the FSMO roles went down and you seized the roles to another DC?Regards Ronny

I have 2 other servers (2000,2003)that are off site that replicate but have different ip address. Not sure how that effects replication. I also have another error message that states " The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from a specified server" The other 2 servers connect by VPN. THe second part of your reply may be more to the point.

if you have multiple DC's its not supported to just restore a DC with acronis. You get replication issues which only can be solved by demoting the server the server and promote it later. read here how you should recover a DC with acronis: http://dc-mirror.download.acronis.com/sl/Q44LGK90Wpz3NxtX1Xsp4cXWLnc2KmQDO9r6dtRBoVQ/p/pdf/wp/ActiveDirectoryABR10_whitepaper.en.pdfRegards Ronny

Thank you for the info. I had to call Microsoft tech support. They worked on it for 2 days. Since I just joined technet and they give you two free support calls. It paid for it self ten times over. Thank you again for you support and I will use it next time. Mike Donohue

You need to provide more information. What version of AD are you using? How did you restore the DC? Please follow there instructions to restore the entire forest: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/planning-active-directory-forest-recovery(WS.10).aspx Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.