Have a new pc (vostro 270) delivered to our field office, they did a win 7 pro
downgrade,
I spent the better part of the day (off and on) trying to join the domain,
continuously got the "could not contact a domain controller...." it's not in
English I'm not going to copy paste the error.
remote office has a 2008r2 DC/DNS/GC;
1. can ping by name and ip (both ways)server to workstation and vice versa;
2. we are VPNd to HQ and the can ping the FSMO over VPN;
3. can remote desktop both ways.
4.did a manual config of IP and DNS servers
5. turned off firewall bot server and workstation
6. tried manually applying DNS of HQ Domain Controllers
7. Can browse network and connect to the servers share (with alternate
credentials of course)
is there any possibility, that there is an issue with the OS installation?
I have joined PC's remotely before to this and all field offices and have never
had this issue
I'm going to try netmon when I get home later
but getting a bit frustrated
