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by murkunde

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V have 1 server with 2003, which also acts as a dhcp and dns server...
v have 20 compueters all preloade with with win xp professional with sp2, and 1 with win2000 std...

i dint had any problem to get few system in the domain, esp i even bought 2k system in the domain and even win xp system too.. but some system give this error...

the error occured while attempting to join the domin : the dependency service or group failed to start.

when i checked for the services, i saw that netlogon service cannot be started.. rest all the dependent service can be started...

can anybody help with this problem...

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by julian.bennett

on the offending PC's, can you post the related events from the system log, need to narrow this down a bit...

by murkunde

i think the real cause of this problem is the netlogon service...
for this to varify i disabled the service, removed the pc out of the domain and then again tried to bring that pc back in the domain...
problem occured: couldnot bring the system back in the domain, when i enabled and tried to bring th system back in the domain it worked perfectly...

so right now, i'm concentrating on Service : NETLOGON,

any suggestions??

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