I am using a an enterprise domain administrator account to
dcpromo a
windows 2003 server to a domain controller and getting the
following error:

The operation failed because: The Active Directory
Installation Wizard was unable to convert the computer
account XYZ$ to a domain controller account. "Access is
denied."


Any help is appreciated.

Sam

"sam" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sam,

Are you setting up this DC in the Forest Root Domain or a child domain ?
If a child domain use a Domain Administrator account, not a member of the
Enterprise Administrators group

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"sam" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am setting up this server as a child domain, and I
have tried using both the domain administrator and
enterprise administer for dcpromo process. I am getting
the error in either case.