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Win 98 "No Domain server available...."

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by rromig

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I have a small NT network with a PDC running NT Server with DHCP installed. Machines running NT Workstation log on just fine. My Win 98 machines tell me that No domain controller is available... Microsoft networking is installed and TCP/IP settings appear to be correct. The message went away after installing NetBEUI but 98 only sees the workgroup (itself, other 98 machines, and NT Workstation machines) but not the domain.

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by rallanon creed

Remove all the network clients take the card out of the machine. reboot the 98 box with the card not in the unit then reinstall the nic card driver using the driver from the NIc cards manufacturer not 98. If you get the windows prompt update the drivers choose the NO option.

by mphoffar

Disable the security, or turn off the NT logon screen so you can get into windows and run a winipcfg. I suspect that not pulling an address or pulling an obscure address that is mismatched against your gateway. If the IP looks fine, I'd then ping the gateway the ipconfig told you and see where it's leading your from there. After that, I'd be assuming it's a good ole winsock conflict.

Good luck to you

Mark

by nettek

Assuming all of your network settings are correct, it sounds like corruption in your TCP/IP protocol stack. Go to Network Neighborhood, and remove all protocols and network clients. Reboot. Reinstall the clients and protocols, and add the appropriate settings.

by rromig

You were on the right track. It turned out that the problem was with my server's IP address. I had inadvertently given it an address where the last octet was 0, which represents the network. After changing my TCP/IP settings on the server to a better address and reconfiguring DHCP, I uninstalled then reinstalled the client and TCP/IP, configured them as you suggested and everything worked perfectly. Thanks to everyone that responded. All of the answers posted were valid and may be useful to mesomeday.

by earthworm

We have kind of a similar issue with a few of our win98 systems. It may be the same as your problem. Try this to see. Instead of telling your win98 systems to use DHCP, try manually assigning an IP address within your subnet, and try logging intothe domain again. Our systems then see the PDC and work fine, but they can't for some reason see the DHCP server correctly, we have tracked down our problem to having to due with a combination of NIC and hub speeds. By changing all our hubs to 10/100 Hubs or switches, from a combination of 10's and 10/100 Hubs, has fixed our problem. Although we have no real good reason why this worked.

If you need more info, please ask.

Earthworm

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