I have a small network with two DCs, My secondary DC fails to replicate via site/services, and returns a "Target Principle Name is incorrect"
I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 on both DCs.
I am sure that the computer account is out of sync. I attempt to follow the below instructions to correct:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/288167
HOWEVER, when I run netdom resetpwd it always fails saying access denied, no matter what user account and password I use (only domain accounts since the problem server is a DC and has no local account). I have tried to run the command in an elevated command prompt, and via powershell, nothing changes the result.
googling this issues seems to only find people who also failed using Netdom and had to unjoin and rejoin the domain to fix this issue, (however they were dealing with client machines and not a DC....)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
At this point, I'm thinking of simply running dcpromo, removing the server as a DC, and then re promote it, but have read that this should not be done and that resetting the computer account is the preferred way.
-Windex
Systems Administrator