Error Message: Credential conflict with existing credentials

[tcorrigan]

I am trying to (re-)attach a notebook machine running Win2K to my office network. After going through the wizard I get the following message: "The computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred: The credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials."

Anybody have a clue as to how to get around this?

 

[ghostrider3]

is the computer name of your computer the same as one already on the network?
this is usually the cause of that problem

 

[tcorrigan]

This is a notebook that I take to client sites and use to connect to their networks so I am frequently changing the domain that the machine is a member of (which, by the way, is a real pain, but that's a topic for another time). Then I come back to my office, and reattach to my network by switching the machine to my domain. Generally this is not a problem, but now all of a sudden it is. I just keep getting this error message.

I have also gone into the Server Manager on the Server and deleted and readded the machine name. It still hasn't solved the problem.