Hello,
I am trying to create a DFS namespace in a Windows 2012 domain. The forest functionality is Windows 2012 and all the servers are Windows 2012. When I try to create the Namespace from the DFS management tool after selecting Domain-Based namespace with Windows 2008 mode I get: \\Domain\Name: The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC server is unavailable.
First off this is the first namespace being created, so the information in the following post does not work, as this information is not on the DC: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/58f14a60-673c-4dcc-8d0c-be0a4ae190fe/dfs-cannot-create-namespace-rpc-server-is-unavailable?forum=windowsserver2008r2general
So I have done the following:
dcdiag /v and dcdiag /test:dns on the DC, all tests pass.
from the file server that the DFS is being created on, I did a the following:
ipconfig /displaydns : showed the Domain controller
ping the domain controller: packets: sent = 4, received = 4, lost = 0, average = 1ms
nslookup -type=srv _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.Domain.com: it showed the domain controller and address, along with the srv hostname
dfsutil /server:DC /view : No roots exist on machine DC.Domain.com
dfsutil /server:FS /view : No roots exist on machine FS.Domain.com
rpcping /s dc.domain.com /v 3 : RPCPing set Activity ID: {3f85f584-d2c1-4cdc-828c-9bca1d04222c} completed 1 calls in 16 ms 62 T/S or 16.000 ms/T
Does anyone have any other troubleshooting tips on how to get this created?
Michael R. Mastro II