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Clients cannot logon to Win2K Domain

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kyle451

Technical User
May 14, 2004
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CA
Hi,

Lately we have been having a lot of trouble connecting XP machines to our Win2K domain.

We keep on receiving the follwing error message:

Windows cannot connect to the domain, either the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your system administrator for assistance

We have to log on using the administrator account to
disjoin and rejoin the domain. This seems to correct the problem for some time but has been more bothersome lately. Our XP machines are primarily affected, but this happens occasionaly to computers running Win2K.

I understand that this is a common problem and the solution is to disjoin then rejoin the domain, but does anybody know of a one time fix for this?
 
Check to make sure your DNS is setup properly. Many times communication issues are related to DNS (In Windows 200x).

Your clients must be using an internal DNS server. They should not be pointing to any other IP address (for DNS) other than the internal DNS server.

DNS is required for clients to "talk" to the domain. Without DNS, AD can not be communicated with...

-later

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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I have seen this problem when there are replication issues between DCs.

As a test, the next time you remove a PC, make sure it is deleted from all servers. Then after rejoining the domain see if the new machine account gets to all machines within a reasonable ammount of time like 1/2 hour.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark
 
Thanks for your help guys. We have had some problems with DNS and replication so it's problably related to one of those issues.

 
I am having this same problem. I have a single Win2003 server and the 2 workstations are WinXP Pro. There are 6 other workstations besides these 2 that never have a problem. But these 2 seem to "lose" the domain. The unjoin/rejoin thing works every time but only for a day or maybe two so that is not a real solution.

I tried putting a 'net time' command in the login script thinking it was a time sync issue, but that hasn't solved it. Just curious if anyone else has seen this or has solved the issue?

Thanks
-Tom
 
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