help installing exchange on server 2003

[Guest greg benic]

Our client has 2 servers. DNS appears to be on #2. IIS is on #1. I installed

exchange on #1. I can't run the mail wizard. I keep getting an error. I am

wondering if there is a way to tell if these computers are part of a cluster.

I am also wondering how to tell which one is the default domain controller.

Perhaps Exchange can't work in this scenario?

 

Thanks for any and all advice.

[Guest Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Re: help installing exchange on server 2003

 

Are they both are DCs? To check that run ADUC. Most likely it is DNS issue. Can you ping the DNS server by name?

 

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

"greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:04A5488E-B5F4-4C29-A5D4-1F52687E292E@microsoft.com...

Our client has 2 servers. DNS appears to be on #2. IIS is on #1. I installed

exchange on #1. I can't run the mail wizard. I keep getting an error. I am

wondering if there is a way to tell if these computers are part of a cluster.

I am also wondering how to tell which one is the default domain controller.

Perhaps Exchange can't work in this scenario?

 

Thanks for any and all advice.

[Guest greg benic]

Re: help installing exchange on server 2003

 

i can ping each one by name from the other. i don't know what you are

referring to when you say to run aduc.

 

thanks.

 

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> Are they both are DCs? To check that run ADUC. Most likely it is DNS issue. Can you ping the DNS server by name?

>

> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

> "greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:04A5488E-B5F4-4C29-A5D4-1F52687E292E@microsoft.com...

> Our client has 2 servers. DNS appears to be on #2. IIS is on #1. I installed

> exchange on #1. I can't run the mail wizard. I keep getting an error. I am

> wondering if there is a way to tell if these computers are part of a cluster.

> I am also wondering how to tell which one is the default domain controller.

> Perhaps Exchange can't work in this scenario?

>

> Thanks for any and all advice

[Guest Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Re: help installing exchange on server 2003

 

ADUC=Active Directory Users and Computers. What's the error message?

 

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

"greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:95DA8729-9C2C-437D-8372-08FAC41B424C@microsoft.com...

i can ping each one by name from the other. i don't know what you are

referring to when you say to run aduc.

 

thanks.

 

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> Are they both are DCs? To check that run ADUC. Most likely it is DNS issue. Can you ping the DNS server by name?

>

> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

> "greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:04A5488E-B5F4-4C29-A5D4-1F52687E292E@microsoft.com...

> Our client has 2 servers. DNS appears to be on #2. IIS is on #1. I installed

> exchange on #1. I can't run the mail wizard. I keep getting an error. I am

> wondering if there is a way to tell if these computers are part of a cluster.

> I am also wondering how to tell which one is the default domain controller.

> Perhaps Exchange can't work in this scenario?

>

> Thanks for any and all advice

[Guest greg benic]

Re: help installing exchange on server 2003

 

Thank you for your reply. I can run ADUC on both machines with no errors.

 

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> ADUC=Active Directory Users and Computers. What's the error message?

>

> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

> "greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:95DA8729-9C2C-437D-8372-08FAC41B424C@microsoft.com...

> i can ping each one by name from the other. i don't know what you are

> referring to when you say to run aduc.

>

> thanks.

>

> "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

>

> > Are they both are DCs? To check that run ADUC. Most likely it is DNS issue. Can you ping the DNS server by name?

> >

> > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE

> > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net

> > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

> > "greg benic" <gregbenic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:04A5488E-B5F4-4C29-A5D4-1F52687E292E@microsoft.com...

> > Our client has 2 servers. DNS appears to be on #2. IIS is on #1. I installed

> > exchange on #1. I can't run the mail wizard. I keep getting an error. I am

> > wondering if there is a way to tell if these computers are part of a cluster.

> > I am also wondering how to tell which one is the default domain controller.

> > Perhaps Exchange can't work in this scenario?

> >

> > Thanks for any and all advice