New Systems Windows XP machines failed to join new build machine to the domain belonging to a site. The site has a DC.
Getting the error…”Error occured attempting to join the domain XXXX. The system Cannot find the file specified”
During the course of troubleshooting we found that…DCDiag says…
Starting test: RidManager * Available RID Pool for the Domain is 1084604 to 1073741823
* XXX.YYY.com is the RID Master
* DsBind with RID Master was successful
* rIDAllocationPool is 935104 to 935603
* rIDPreviousAllocationPool is 935104 to 935603
* rIDNextRID: 935247
......................... XXX passed test RidManager
That means -> 935603 – 935104 =499 plus it says Next RID is 935247
But Event log showed…
Event 16642:- The account-identifier allocator was unable to assign a new identifier. The identifier pool for this domain controller may have been
depleted. If this problem persists, restart the domain controller and view the initialization status of the allocator in the event log.
There is no other event showcasing this DC request for new RID POOL from RID master.
Due to the severity of the situation as event said to reboot the DC. I did and that fixed the issue.
I would like to know, if someone knows what caused this DC Behaviour???