Active directory problems on dual processor computers

[Ayman Altounji]

Are there any issues with Window 2000 active directory and dual processors Proliant 350 servers?

I?ve previously set up Windows 2000 active directory on single processor Pentiums servers, including a ML330 server, and didn?t have a problem. However, the ML350 with dual processors and a 3200 SmartArray controller won?t publish the netlogin or sysvol shares like it is supposed to (when you type ?net shares? at a command prompt), and there are errors in the file replication event logs. This happened immediately after Active Directory was installed. Here are the errors:

FILE REPLICATION SERVICE ERROR

Event ID: 13515 Description: The File Replication Service may be preventing the computer SW1 from becoming a domain controller while the system volume is being initialized and then shared as SYSVOL.

Event ID: 13552 Description: The File Replication Service is unable to add this computer to the following replica set:
"DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)"

Event ID: 13555 Description: The File Replication Service is in an error state. Files will not replicate to or from one or all of the replica sets on his compute.

I looked up the error on Microsoft KnowledgeBase and found Q250978 regarding situations where high performance computers may prevent full replication of Sysvol and DFS Replicas. They mention applying Windows2000 service pack as a solution, which appears to have been applied at the factory. I?m not even sure this Knowledgebase article addresses my real problem. Maybe there are other factors involved.

Any ideas about this?

[Ayman Altounji]

Are you sure that SP1 is applied (since we don't normally ship the OS preinstalled - I don't know if it was)? Trying to apply SP1 again should NOT hurt anything.