It probably is a port issue. Have a look at the following article, which lists the domain controller default ports. Probably the most obvious is the ldap port (389).
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q289/2/41.ASP&NoWebContent=1 Another possibility could be to do with the number of nested group memberships of the account being used to join the domain. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327825 What error message do you see on the member server? Tony ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- Wrom: VIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMHAALPTCXLYRWT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:45:26 +0100 I have built many W2K networks using SonicWall VPN to connect branch offices (BO) to a central site. This has always worked very well. One site continues to trouble me though. This site has a W2K+Sp3 server that refuses to join the main AD domain. DNS & WINS on this server point across the VPN to a server in the central site. I can ping and access resources on the central site from the branch office - IP connectivity appears good. I can run nslookup on the BO server and query for records in DNS. Is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing here ? Maybe some ISP/VPN related issue that would prevent a server in the BO from joining the domain ? Ian Moran Konnexion Ltd List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
