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It sounds as though you are having some browsing problems on your network. Is the PDC and/or BDC local or are you browsing over a VPN or other type of remote connection? The message that the domain server cannot be found simply means what it says - the computer cannot find a PDC on the local hosts that it can reach. Can you otherwise ping by name successfully? If not, then you are having a DNS and/or WINS name resolution problem - look at the location and number of your WINS and/or DNS servers on the network - you may need more of them or you may simply need to add switches to segment your network and speed things up that way. Also, look at how many domain browse masters you have - if you have only one or two, depending upon the number of workstations you have, you may need to add this capability to other servers on the network. Hope this helps!

How name resolution is happening in your scenario depends on which OS the server is running. If you are using NT 4 add an entry in your HOSTS file pointing to the netbios name of your pdc.

If you are attaching to a Win2k domain ensure that your network dns settings are pointing to the proper dns server (probably your ad controller with a 1 server network)

hope this points you in the right direction

We have this problem all the time. Do you set up workstations with an image (ie ghost)? If you do you will get a nme conflict. We just change the name and try to jion the domain. If it does not work a reboot should fix it.

I also get this error on some of my ghost images
After I get an invalid domain error I try again and ad the .com to my domain name and it then joins with no problem.

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