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by d50041

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I have Netware servers and a WIN2000 server setup with Active Directory and is the domain controller. One, and only one, PC cannot find the domain. If I try to setup the domain through My Computer, Network Identification,Network ID, I get an errorthat the domain name does not exist. If I browse through Network Neighborhood, I can see the icon with the name of the domain but cannot see anything below that. Oddly enough, if I use Explorer I can map a drive letter the the //domain/sys. The offending pC is a WIN2000 PC. No other computer has this problem. IP setup is correct and served through a Netware DHCP server. IPCONFIG looks good.

Any ideas?

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by timwalsh

Operating systems prior to Win2K use the NetBIOS domain name (MYDOMAIN) when joining an Active Directory domain. Win2K and later use the Active Directory (AD) domain name, which follows the DNS domain name format (mydomain.com or whatever). Win2K Pro, since it is AD-aware will recognize all domains present, but will not let you browse until you join the domain. You can also map shared resources if the userID and password used to log-on to the local computer are the same as the network userIDand password.

by darry

Try to uninstall the Network components i.e. Client Services, Protocol, Network Adapter, Files & Print Sharing etc from the Network Properties. Now reinstall once again all the components including the network Adapter (hope you have the drivers).
After following above try to join the Domain.
Looks like one of the network components have a bad "dll" registered.
Let us know how it goes about!

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