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by joesoh

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I have a branch office with just 5 windows 98 PC and no server installed. They are connected through router to HQ which is running Win NT server with no WINS and DNS service installed. I am now facing a problem loging on my branch office client to my HQ domain with the error message "no domain available".
May I know what additional step I need to do in order for the client to logon to HQ domain? adding LMHOSTS file to client will solve the problem?

joesoh@hotmail.com

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by hmossessi

Make sure you have static IP addresses for the workstations at the remote office and the you've configured TCP/IP correctly namely the Subnet Mask and the Gateway address, then make sure your PDC is running if the PDC is off you will get this message, a number of things will give you this error. If I were you and I had the budjet allowed I would buy another server and set it up either as a BDC or another PDC and create a two way trust relationship. Or just set it up as a BDC and your remote workstations could just log into the the BDC and set both PDC and BDC replicate at night or at a time when network traffic is at its slowest time. I hope this helps.

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