Published: 2004-09-09
Applies to:
- Content Studio all versions running as member in Active Directory
Type: Information
Symptoms
When trying to register a new domain global or universal group from the
Active Directory the process fails with the error "The specified group does not
exist.". This problem does occur even i you have located the group by
browsing to it.
Cause
We have seen this problem on one installation where the web server and the
Active Directory was located on different network nodes. The problem
occured on the domain controller acting as PDC and this machine was
running Windows 2000 but we cannot confirm nor deny that the problem also
will occur on domain controllers running Windows Server 2003. In this case
the internal windows function NetGroupGetInfo returned the error
NERR_GroupNotFound error instead of the documented error ERROR_NO_SUCH_ALIAS.
This undocumented error is not handled in this case so the process
fails.
Resolution
Try to move the web server to the same network node as the Active
Directory.
Status
We can confirm that this problem has occured on one installation only. This
error will be dealt with in later versions of Content
Studio.