Adding to domain

[Hokie97VT]

We recently purchased brand new workstations. Windows XP Pro.

We are trying to join the new computers to our corporate domain. The problem is that the computer will not join. We get the following error:

"The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "XXXX"

The specified network name is no longer available"

All network access seems fine. We can ping from the problem PC to both our domain controls as well as get on the internet and VNC works as well. We just cannot get it to join the corporate domain at all. We even went to an existing station on the domain, removed it an then tried to add it back and it would not, got the same message. The only way we could get the old PC back on the domain was to do a XP restore. This has just started in the last month.

Any help will be tremendous!

 

[paulhthomas]

Hi,
You say you can ping the domain controllers.. when you ping them do they resolve to fully qualified domains, so hostname.domain.local or does it return just the hostname?
Can you ping the domain name itself?
I take it the DNS settings on the workstations point at these domain controllers for DNS? if not, where do they point?

Cheers

Paul

Paul Thomas
Important IT

http://www.ImportantIT.com