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by sasco300

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i;ve a cleint pc runing win xp pro,is able to ping all servers successfully on the network but cannot map to any shared drive, files, folders or documents on these same servers.you cannot join pc to the domain as well.it dispalys the message "network location cannot be found".you can browse thru theproxy server.could it be virus? virus check reveal nothing.anyone out there to help?

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by mbnc1124

I have run into a similar problem and found that it was a permission error. Have you checked to see if the account you are currently using is an administrator on the local machine? There are some viruses that have been known to play "lock out the administrator" on machines, however, this sounds more like a permission or firewall issue.

by bfilmfan

Is this a NT or Active Directory domain?

Assuming this is an AD domain:

Can you ping the other systems by both their Fully Qualified Domain Name also known as FQDN(server1.mycompany.com as an example), their IP address and their NETBIOS name (which using my example would be server1?)

If you cannot ping by FQDN, then the system is not correctly registed in DNS. From a command box, run IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS.

If you still cannot connect to the domain, the most likely answer is that the RPC session to the domain controller has failed or the system did not properly join the domain. You can use NETDOM to resolve both of these issues.

To reset the secure channel, use the command line:

netdom reset /d:(your domain's FQDN) workstation name

To force the system to join the domain, use the command line:

netdom join /d:(your domain's FQDN) workstation name

Note that you will have to domain administrator permissions to accomplish this.

by sbrown95

I agree with Blackcurrant it's more than likely a DNS problem. Usually it is not resolving the DC correctly. You could also try putting the domain and ip of the dc in hosts file to resolve this problem. This has worked for me on occation.

by diligent1

really i have the same problem here

i joined 30 pc to the domain but No. 31 cannot join domain

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