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W2K Pro joining W2K Server Domain

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by michaelh

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This has been a hit and miss for me for several months, everytime I try to join a computer to my domain, I will successfully make it in or get an error:
The following error occured attempting to join the domain "XXX": The credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials.

I use the Admin username & pw, hoping to be by this however no luck, and haven't been able to pinpoint the root cause of this. Any help is desparately needed..

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by jaboy78

if i am not wrong..The pc u going to join to server (joined before...)

Try to change to Win2k computer name is an option

Another option is that u have to delete the computer name u joined before so that u can join a fresh one with the same computer name.

Is located at the active directory and user
is in the "computer"

Check it out

by dkmc00

I agree with Jaboy78 in that you'll need to delete and recreate your account.
In Win2kPro disjoin your computer from the domain
and join the workgroup.(Control Panel-System.
Select the radio button for workgroup and enter
any name.Reboot. You're now in a workgroup.

In Win2k Server open up Active Directory Users &
Computers and delete your computer account. If you have member servers then wait few minutes for replication to occur.
Recreate a new computer a/c in Win2kServer (it
could be the same old name). Go back to Win2kPro
and change your membership from workgroup back to
domain reversing the steps mentioned above.

The computer name in Win2kPro should still be the
same name as before.
If this doesn't help try using a newcomputer name following the same steps above.
Hope this helps.

by dkmc00

I agree with Jaboy78 in that you'll need to delete and recreate your account.
In Win2kPro disjoin your computer from the domain
and join the workgroup.(Control Panel-System.
Select the radio button for workgroup and enter
any name.Reboot. You're now in a workgroup.

In Win2k Server open up Active Directory Users &
Computers and delete your computer account. If you have member servers then wait few minutes for replication to occur.
Recreate a new computer a/c in Win2kServer (it
could be the same old name). Go back to Win2kPro
and change your membership from workgroup back to
domain reversing the steps mentioned above.

The computer name in Win2kPro should still be the
same name as before.
If this doesn't help try using a newcomputer name following the same steps above.
Hope this helps.

by tictag

Remove any locally configured or remotely scripted mapped network drives and retry.

Tictag.

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