Unable to join domain to windows server 2003
I have a computer server with windows server 2003 operating system and there's no problem to joining domain to a windows 2003 server from computer client with windows xp professional OS. But later, i installing a new client computer with windows 7 ultimate OS and i unable to joining domain server. Everytime i trying to join domain from control panel -->system and security-->system--> change setting and choose member of domain with the domain server name,error messages appears. " An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target Domains. Please help me with the solution ,, Thanks
March 10th, 2010 12:20pm
Hi,
May I know if the computer gets the network settings via a DHCP server?
Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following:
1. Check if you can ping the DC and DNS server with computer name and FQDN name.
2. Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and see how it works:
1) Go to “Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections”.
2) Right-Click on the connection and choose Properties.
3) Click “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Version 4” in the list.
4) Click Properties, and then click Advanced.
5) On the Advanced TCP/IP settings windows, go to “WINS” tab.
6) Under NetBIOS setting, click “Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP”, and then click OK.
3. Boot to clean boot and see if you can join domain:
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
4. If you have another Windows 7 client which is not in a domain, please also check if you can join it to this domain.
Hope this helps. Thanks.
Nicholas Li - MSFT
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March 11th, 2010 1:06pm