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by deane

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Workstation with win95 updated to win98. When attempting to login to my NT server, I get a response "No domain server was available to validate your password. You may not be able to gain access to some network resources". Nothing has changed in my network configuration,(Microsoft network, the workgroup same as all other units) I can activate Network Neighborhood and see the peer's I'm sharing with\to, but not the server. Any body have this happen before?

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by dprivette

I have had this happen before. Remove the the computer from the Domain, reboot, go back in and readd the Domain, reboot and this should work. Good Luck.

by nettek

Try removing all components under Network Neighborhood -> Properties. Reboot and then reinstall.

by deane

Already tried this. I believe my network card was set on AUTO 10/100 and needed to be set at 10 manually. Just said screw it and mirror imaged another hard drive over the top of this one and changed the necessary configurations. Thanks for the input anyway.

by rcc

Just a note for a previous poster: You cannot add/remove win9x machines from the domain...
OK, here we go ( I assume you are using TCP/IP:
Obvioulsly, your clients do not know the netbios name of the domain controller, or they do not know that the machine is a domain controller.
From one of your faulty clients:
- Try pinging you domain controller from and see if you get a response. If you use DHCP and WINS, make sure that these are properly configured, and your clients configured to use DHCP.
- Add the entry
IP_ADDRESS PDC-NAME #PRE #DOMAIN:YOURDOMAIN to the lmhosts file in your faulty station.

If you cannot see the server at all and tf the above fails, you may have to reinstall the networking components, somethimes the OS migratioon leaves some garabage in the registry...
I hope this fails.
Regards,
Radu

by deane

I mirror imaged another workstation hard drive over the top of the faulty one and all is ok. Thanks anyway for the response.

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