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by meeva

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My organisations has a windows 2000 server which is the domain controller. Some of our clients run windows xp professional. The xp machines are able to join the domain. When u try to log in from the welcome screen after selecting the domain. It gives an error that the domain in not available. what causes this problem? How can it be solved? Please help

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by dmiddltn

It could be a bad computer account.
You also want to make sure that DNS is installed and running on the server; and that the DHCP is handing out the server's IP as the DNS server.

by bfilmfan

Take a look and make sure that the GPO permissions for the Default Domain Policy are not preventing users from adding systems. By default, an authenticated user can add up to 10 computers to a domain.

by tuqeirahmad

Fist of all you are login in administrator and go to control panal next you go to system property after this you go computer name icon than you press change now you enter domain name and press ok after this compter say you server administrator login and password you put the login and password after this computer registor your system at server and need to restart system after restart you see login panal you domain click domain and take login and passward now your system attach with you server

by meeva

Comment for Answer 3: The machines initially join the domain but when u restart and want to connect again now to the domain. U get the message that the domain is unavailable.

by glyall

Has your Network administrator setup the users accounts?
If not they can not log on the domain.

Has a local administrator of the XP machines joined these macines to the network?
I have seen machines drop from the domain and have to be readded to the domain.

Does the server have the users change their password at a set number of days. If the user have not log on the the domain within the set number of days, the domain administrator has to reset their password.

Good luck

by ajitdsouza

Hi,

first of all remove your machine from domain and put in workgroup.After that restart your computer.( it works enen if you logoff and login to your computer)Once your computer is restarted joined your computer to domain with the help of domain account which has administrative rights.Once it is joined just restart your PC it should work.
For problems like " Domain controller not available" disconnect and connect to the domain is the best solution.

Regards
Ajit

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