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by mderome 1 view

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I'M trying to join a standalone server to our win2k domain. But I get the network name is no longer available. I used netsetup.log to try to find the problem. It appears to be at the server side. For some reason the IPC connection gets lost or returns a error 64.

12/19 20:38:53 NetpValidateName: checking to see if 'desig.com' is valid as type 3 name
12/19 20:38:53 NetpCheckDomainNameIsValid [ Exists ] for 'desig.com' returned 0x0
12/19 20:38:53 NetpValidateName: name 'desig.com' is validfor type 3
12/19 20:38:53 NetpDsGetDcName: trying to find DC in domain 'desig.com', flags: 0x1020
12/19 20:38:53 NetpDsGetDcName: found DC '\\ntdesig.desig.com' in the specified domain
12/19 20:39:26 NetUseAdd to \\ntdesig.desig.com\IPC$ returned64
12/19 20:39:26 NetpJoinDomain: status of connecting to dc '\\ntdesig.desig.com': 0x40
12/19 20:39:26 NetpDoDomainJoin: status: 0x40

At this point I have 3 stations out of 45 that have this problem since I've updated to a win2k AD server. I've tried everything but can't seem to solve it. I was wondering if you have any idea of what could be causing the problem

SO I really don't know what'S causing this. Any help would be appreciated.

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by jon pratt

Okay the 0x40 error might be a problem with the shutdown after a successful join but I'm not sure on that (I don't have the win32 error codes handy). You can always try a forceful join using the netdom utility which comes in the reskit. The syntaxfor using the netdom util is: Netdom join /d:yourdomain.com /OU:OU=OUname,DC=yourdomain,DC=com /reboot:30. If you ran this command as you see it written it would add a machine to the OUname OU of the yourdomain.com domain and then force the stationto reboot in 30 seconds. If this doesn't work use the netdiag tool to run a diagnostic on the machine's network settings. It should dump everything you need to identify what's preventing the station from joining. If you need help interpreting thenetdiag dump, post it in this thread and I'll give you hand. Hope this helps. Good luck.

by mderome

Thanks John, I tried, but it doesn't work. I had Microsoft assit me on this one.Worked for one week on it, no solutions possible. Will have to reconfigur the domain from scratch.

by stillatit

1. Check your DNS settings. Make sure they are pointed at your DNS server.

2. Check your HOSTS file and LMHOSTS file. If they currently have entries for your domain, take them out, and let the DNS server handle things.

3. Make sure the machine name you have assigned to this machine is unique in the domain and legal (no strange characters).

Good luck.

by cruncher_1

When checking your DNS settings, be sure that the IP number of the server that you are trying to join to the network is listed also.

Hope this helps.

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