I have an existing, functional MS 2003 domain that has working DNS. Servers in the location where the DCs reside can join without a problem.
My issue is that I want to join a server to this domain that resides in a different location, but when I try I get “This operation returned because the timeout period expired. The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.xxx.”
I have seen a lot of discussion of this problem on various forums, but no clear answers and not too many usable suggestions…
* This is all on the corporate network; no ISPs, no VPN, nothing funky.
* Our WAN group has opened all ports between the two locations for the (static) IP address of the new server.
* This server can ping the DNS servers in the domain, and can be pinged back.
* I have all the servers listed in the HOSTS files on the DNS servers and the new server.
* I can map a drive from the new server to a share on the DNS server using the server name or IP address.
* I have the DNS servers for the domain listed in the new server’s TCPIP configuration.
* I tried pre-entering the server in Active Directory.
* I even tried (following a suggestion I found on-line) manually adding an (A) record and reverse-lookup PTR record for the new server to DNS.
Please help! Any ideas welcome.
Thanks,
Erik