Dear all

Firstly, please note that this is PURELY a Clustering / Active Directory
question and nothing to do with SQL Server ... there just wasn't any other
clustering newsgroups around!!

Anyway, we have as Server2003 Cluster and i'm trying to setup a group that
has a Network Name Resource that has the "Kerberos Authentication" checkbox
ticked.
The point we're at now is that we've Pre-created the AD Computer Object (and
waited until it's fully replicated across the DC's), and out of pure
frustration, we've made the Cluster Service account a domain administrator
... however, when we try to bring the Network Name resource online it fails
and gives the following event-log message -

"The computer account for Cluster resource 'xxxxx Network Name' in domain
lala.poe.com could not be created for the following reason: Unable to create
computer account.

The text for the associated error code is: The account already exists.

The Cluster Service Account may lack the proper access rights to Active
Directory. The domain administrator should be contacted to assist with
resolving this issue."

As a domain admin, the cluster service account has more than enough rights
to "Hijack" the existing computer object (to which it also has a "FUll
Control" ACL), so we're a bit confused as to why it's trying to create a new
one!???

The site where the Clust er is based does have multiple DC's and we're
wondering if this is part of the issue ??
We've already tried everything is THIS article :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/clus
tering/srclscbp.mspx

... and are now at something of a loss as to what to do to get it working
correctly!

HELP!!

Cheers

Mark