Re: XP client hot joing NT Domain.

From: Colin Nash [MVP] (x_at_x)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:17:08 -0500

"Ananth" <Ananth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A424F9E-7814-4817-9850-1A79853698B5@microsoft.com...
> We have a NT based Domain, recently a user brought her XP professional
> system
> and when we tried to join it to the domain, we get an error message that
> the
> domain does not exist or is not found. BUT we can ping any system and we
> can
> access any system in the network and acces its files, but the system just
> won't join the domain.
>
> I suspected any firewall problem but nothing is enabled anywhere.
>
> Somebody please advice!

Is the system configured to use your domain's DNS server?

See http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/dns/tshoot/dns_tshoot2A.asp

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