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July 8, 2009 at 09:21 AM
jason.helm

Need assistance: unable to join workstations to win 2003 domain: DNS Issue

by jason.helm . Updated 17 years ago

Not sure if this is a domain controller issue or a DNS issue, but for some reason I cannot get my workstations to join my domain. My DC and my Exchange server are the same, and I have DNS running on this server as well. I can get email perfectly (though outlook 2007 cannot seem to find the server for the out of office assistant) and can access any and all shares on the server, ping by name and by IP.
Below is what I get when I do a DCDIAG on the server ( sorry its long):

C:\Documents and Settings\jason.LIGHTHOUSE>dcdiag

Domain Controller Diagnosis

Performing initial setup:
Done gathering initial info.

Doing initial required tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\MAIL
Starting test: Connectivity
The host d7656a0c-ec8f-431b-a213-0d7659a7521d._msdcs.lighthouse.local c
ould not be resolved to an
IP address. Check the DNS server, DHCP, server name, etc
Although the Guid DNS name
(d7656a0c-ec8f-431b-a213-0d7659a7521d._msdcs.lighthouse.local)
couldn’t be resolved, the server name (Mail.lighthouse.local) resolved
to the IP address (192.168.2.51) and was pingable. Check that the IP
address is registered correctly with the DNS server.
……………………. MAIL failed test Connectivity

Doing primary tests

Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\MAIL
Skipping all tests, because server MAIL is
not responding to directory service requests

Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
……………………. ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation

Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
……………………. ForestDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom

Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
……………………. DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation

Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
……………………. DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom

Running partition tests on : Schema
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
……………………. Schema passed test CrossRefValidation
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
……………………. Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom

Running partition tests on : Configuration
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
……………………. Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
……………………. Configuration passed test CheckSDRefDom

Running partition tests on : lighthouse
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
……………………. lighthouse passed test CrossRefValidation
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
……………………. lighthouse passed test CheckSDRefDom

Running enterprise tests on : lighthouse.local
Starting test: Intersite
……………………. lighthouse.local passed test Intersite
Starting test: FsmoCheck
……………………. lighthouse.local passed test FsmoCheck

C:\Documents and Settings\jason.LIGHTHOUSE>

I am guessing that its that first part that is killing me but for the life of e I cant figure out how to resolve it. Any ideas?

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