Have you looked at C:\Windows\debug\NetSetup.LOG? IME, it's often very illuminating with domain join issues.
Useful for other purposes WRT the system's history with the domain(s) as well. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain 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 PG&E is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/
