I am trying to setup a test environment so that I can learn how to
install, manage and maintain a Microsoft network. I successfully
installed a 180-day trial version of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server –
Enterprise Edition. I have also installed all of the critical and high
priority updates. After that, I installed Active Directory, DNS, DHCP,
WINS and File Server.
In Active Directory, I created a computer account. Then in DNS, I
created a Host (A) record for my workstation. The workstation is
running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. When I try to join this
computer to my domain, I consistently get an error message and I
don’t understand why. Would someone be willing to help me figure
this out. The following is a copy of the two types of errors that I
receive.
ERROR – Joining MaxSim1 to the Domain (maximusnet)
Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you
are not your network’s administrator, notify the administrator that you
received this information, which has been recorded in the file
C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt.
The domain name maximusnet might be a NetBIOS domain name. If
this is the case, verify that the domain name is properly registered
with WINS.
If you are certain that the name is not a NetBIOS domain name, then
the following information can help you troubleshoot your DNS
configuration.
The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service
location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory
Domain Controller for domain maximusnet:
The error was: “This operation returned because the timeout period
expired.”
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)
The query was for the SRV record for
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.maximusnet
The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not
responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the
following IP addresses:
192.168.10.10
Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are
the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS
servers is running.
For more information on how to correct this problem, click Help.
ERROR – Joining MaxSim1 to the Domain FQDN (maximusnet.local)
Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you
are not your network’s administrator, notify the administrator that you
received this information, which has been recorded in the file
C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt.
The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service
location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory
Domain Controller for domain maximusnet.local:
The error was: “This operation returned because the timeout period
expired.”
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)
The query was for the SRV record for
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.maximusnet.local
The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not
responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the
following IP addresses:
192.168.10.10
Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are
the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS
servers is running.
For more information on how to correct this problem, click Help.
