Problem Joining Domain

The ping command, even by name uses DNS or IP broadcasts in which to resolve another computers name. When your attempting to join the domain however, its searching for the domain and domain controler by Netbios name. The netbios name, if your servercannot resolve the netbios name of the domain and the PDC that controls it, you will have issues. This can also be related to multi homed systems and multi-transports. The netbios name gets bound to the first protocol in the binding order. I would remove all protocols that were not nessesary and put the protocol of choice in the top of the binding order. I would also verify that the PDC is set up accordingly. If you want a way to ensure that the name is resolved so that you can join the domain,create a file called LMHOSTS and put it in your %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc directory. There should be a sample file in there also called LMHOSTS.SAM if you want to copy the sample file, it should be called just LMHOSTS.

Put and entry simular to the sample file or

Example 102.54.94.97 rhino #PRE #DOM:networking

With the exception of the # near pre and dom make sure your line doesnt contain any #'s in the line. Also make sure you hit a CR after the end of the line. You should use and editor like EDIT instead of wordpad, word, or notepad because it can leave hidden characters in the txt file as its Unicode based. Fortunatly in Windows 2000 they now give you a choice to save as just plain text. But under NT 4.0 and previously it was only Unicode based.

Peter

Just curious - have you created a computer account for the new server??

are you running the same frame type

It's on the same subnet of the pdc?
Is there a firewall between the server and the pdc?
In this situation check the configurations of ports.
Bye

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