Also, You may want to make sure that the DNS on the client machine is correct. I have also, have had problems in the past with windows machines. Adding static DNS entries and adding the DNS suffix (under the advanced tab) have corrected issues with problem machines, at least for me.
Thanks, Steve.
The DNS was wrong initially, but we corrected it prior to installing service packs. I'll check into the DNS suffix issue, as I'm not sure what we had done there.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] One computer is fine, one has "can't find domain controller" errors
A agree with Joe.
Bill - you've posted no data that you managed to collect from attempting to troubleshoot this problem, so on what basis can you conclude (or expect us to believe) that "it's definitely a bug in WinXP"?
We've got plenty of WinXP machines that we've either Ghosted, or Syspreped, and then added to a domain. On some occasions it doesn't take, but removing the machine, deleting the machine account in AD, and readding the machine usually fixes things.
Cheers Ken
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] One computer is fine, one has "can't find
domain
controller" errors
Just for an alternate viewpoint, we have tens of thousands of XP machines that are staged in workgroup mode and added to the domain after the fact via script. We don't see these issues.
joe
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
roseta wrote:
This actually seems very similar, since the machine that has the errors was originally part of a workgroup, then joined to the domain, whereas the one that doesn't produce errors was never part of a workgroup.
This definately appears to be a bug in Windows XP. We have all available Windows updates installed, so it's apparently still a bug.
Thanks for the input. I'm going to try to find time/resources to do an actual test on this and prove/disprove this theory.
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