Sorry for that. This is a XP sp3 box with hard wired IP addresses for machine and DNS servers The machine was renamed while not on the domain. I have added the machine name in AD and done both direct add and network discovery.
Bob IT Manager From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Unable to join computer to Domain you don't give much to go on, like the OS of the workstation, what version of domain ( 2003 AD, 2008 AD, etc ) Have you checked for duplicate machine name, tried NewSid, verified your DNS is pointing to a DC, check DNS for your workstation record, etc ... On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Bob Anderson <bander...@kentwatersports.com<mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com>> wrote: Hello, I have a computer that refuses to join the domain. I get as far as entering the admin password to join the domain and it comes back with: The network location cannot be reached However the machine can get emails from the domain but just not join it Thanks in advance Bob Anderson IT Manager Kent Sporting Goods Inc. 433 Park Ave. S New London OH 44851 419-929-7021 x315 • Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
