I have a problem with DNS. I am on a small network of about 20 workstations. The workstations are windowsNT, the server is windows2000. I have no problem getting the NT boxes to join the domain however, I cannot get any win2k pro boxes to join. I can see the rest of the domain, I can ping the other machines by name and IP address. I can map drives from the server to a win2k pro box but when I try to join it to the domain, I get a message saying “network path not found”! I have admin priveleges,all IP’s are correct, subnets are the same, DNS servers are there and I can ping them. I have recently taken over the network from a previous admin and I have no idea how he setup the server in regards to new machines joining in. Active directory isrunning. All IP’s are static and live, not private. Reading the articles and white papers microsoft has on the issue, I thought perhaps that the domain name having an underscore in it would be an issue but I have ruled that out as well. The institution in question is a university. From what I can see, their servers are UNIX based as is their DNS server. However our domain is windows based. Is there a conflict in how the two differ in handling DNS that may not affect winnt machines? When I join an NT box to the domain I must include the university domain name in the tcp/ip properties, however I am not sure I am doing this correctly in the win2k tcp/ip properties.