Unable to Create Zones in DNS Manager
Article ID: 177119
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q177119
SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to create any zone in Domain Name Service (DNS) Manager,
you receive the following error:
The new zone could not be created because there is already a zone by
this name.
Event Viewer on your DNS server may also log one or more of the following
event messages in the System event log:
Event ID : 100
Source : DNS
Description: DNS server could not open the file 'zone name'.
-or-
Event ID : 104
Source : DNS
Description: Could not open Database 'zone name' for DNS.
-or-
Event ID : 150
Source : DNS
Description: Could not create 'zone name'.
-or-
Event ID : 242
Source : DNS
Description: Encountered invalid Domain username.domainname.
CAUSE
The above issue may be caused by either of the following:
- The user account that you are using to create the new zones contains one
or more spaces in its name
-or-
- The built-in "SYSTEM" account does not have "FULL CONTROL" permissions
on <NT_Root>\System32\DNS\.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, perform one of the following:
- Rename the current user account removing any spaces
-or-
- If you have an NTFS partition, verify that the built-in SYSTEM account
has FULL CONTROL permissions on the %SystemRoot%\System32\DNS folder
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