Can't add domain users 1

[Teamaker]

I am having trouble adding and removing domain users to local groups on my XP laptop. When i open the group to show members i get a list of local users but only an SID for domain users, if i try to add a domain user i can only browse for local users.

It is a members of the domain and i can log on as domain admin and access all admin shares, anyone had this prob???

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[wolluf]

So, you're at list of members in a group and you click on add. Do you have a drop down look-in box? Have you pointed that to doamin rather than local machine?

 

[Teamaker]

When i go to add then locations i can only see the local machine.

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[Teamaker]

Oh and the machine keeps losing it's network authentication as well not connectivity as I can still use the internet and ping the servers it just suddenly wont connect for some reason.

Can y shed any light on that???


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[mattjurado]

Do it from the command prompt.
net localgroup groupname domainname\domainusername

groupname=your localgroup
domainname=your domain name
domainusername=your domain user account

Matt J.

 

[Teamaker]

Not to worry guys found out that it's a DNS problem and XP is alot more fussy about this than 2k, got it sorted now though.

Cheers

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[pixelq]

I am having the same problem where it doesn't show the domain in locations. What exactly did you have to do in DNS?

 

[Teamaker]

We had some hero's in to fix a prob and they set all the stations to use our ISP for DNS resolution the Win 2k machines coped ok but when we started to use XP it all went to hell.

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[Teamaker]

As soon as I changed these settings it worked very well I could see the active directory in the Users and groups applet witch never showed up before and I could domain user names instead of a list of SID's that were showing up previously.

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[Ahmedib]

hi all
i think you have to see if you type a correct DNS or nor ?
go to TCP/IP propreties and type the correct Preferred DNS Server
it will working

Ahmed