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by vanster169

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I recently renamed my primary domain and now I cannot get any client computers to see it. I have gone through all of the client configs to make sure the DNS and IP addresses are correct. I can attach the client computers using the workgroup mode,but when I try to join them to the domain they always report that the domain cannot be found. What am I overlooking?

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by briantruitt

Here's a thought, try using the ipconfig /flushdns command. Maybe the clients are still looking for the old name of the dc even though you made sure everything was done correctly. Good luck.

by dc1

Verify that the correct name is being used in DNS for the SRV record for your DC's

by tony.colgrove

I will assume this is Win2k and you changed the name of you Active Directory Server. Make sure the Server has updated DNS with the name change. All of the SRV records need to now reflect the new name.

by vanster169

this was part of the problem. In checking into this I found out something else that I needed to do.

by vanster169

Hmmmm I didn't think about DELETING computer accounts that were already there, but I did and some new ones and they had the same problems. I have to think this wasn't it.

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