Active Directory Domain Service started then stopped after dcpromo

active-directorydomain-controllerwindows-server-2008

I use Windows Server 2008 to install Active Directory follow this guide After a restart, I can only login to local account,not domain account due to the error No logon server are available!

I check the services and find out that ADDS service is stopped, so I start it but it immediately stops and report:

This sevice on local computer started and then stopped. some serivces stop automatically if then are not in use by other serives or programs

So how to fix this? And a 2nd question: after run dcpromo, what is the default domain administrator account?

Any ideas are appreciated 🙂

Best Answer

Does the server have more than one network adapter? If it does, disable all but one. On that one active adapter make sure it has a static IPv4 address assigned with the DNS set to 127.0.0.1. In the IPv6 settings of the network adapter remove ::1 from the list of DNS servers. Finally from a elevated command prompt run "ipconfig /registerdns".