Hi,
A few weeks ago I took over a position as a network admin for a small research group. Unfortunately the guy who was here before me used his work station as the login server. At some point either before or right after he left the computer got hit with a virus and had to be reformatted.
I've reinstalled Win2k3 and AD/DNS. Everything seems to be working fine (I got one computer on the domain just peachy) but for some reason other computers can't seem to join the domain. I got the first one on just fine, no issues, but now when I try to add new ones it takes FOREVER and gives me an error along the lines of:
You could not be added to the domain.
The specified server could not perform the requested operation.
I check the event viewer for errors and find none. I check the AD computers list and the accounts for the computers I've tried to add are disabled. I try to re-enable them, and it just happens all over again. I've tried renaming the computers, same thing. I've tried removing and readding the computers from the AD list, same thing.
I can't figure out whats wrong, and I really need to get this fixed soon! There is a grant going out in the next 2 weeks and I'd like to make sure there won't be any problems with that. Even worse, I'm going out of town in a week, and I'll be gone for two. I'm trying to have it back up and running by then so people can log on from anywhere in the office.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions / solutions!
-Brian
A few weeks ago I took over a position as a network admin for a small research group. Unfortunately the guy who was here before me used his work station as the login server. At some point either before or right after he left the computer got hit with a virus and had to be reformatted.
I've reinstalled Win2k3 and AD/DNS. Everything seems to be working fine (I got one computer on the domain just peachy) but for some reason other computers can't seem to join the domain. I got the first one on just fine, no issues, but now when I try to add new ones it takes FOREVER and gives me an error along the lines of:
You could not be added to the domain.
The specified server could not perform the requested operation.
I check the event viewer for errors and find none. I check the AD computers list and the accounts for the computers I've tried to add are disabled. I try to re-enable them, and it just happens all over again. I've tried renaming the computers, same thing. I've tried removing and readding the computers from the AD list, same thing.
I can't figure out whats wrong, and I really need to get this fixed soon! There is a grant going out in the next 2 weeks and I'd like to make sure there won't be any problems with that. Even worse, I'm going out of town in a week, and I'll be gone for two. I'm trying to have it back up and running by then so people can log on from anywhere in the office.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions / solutions!
-Brian