On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...." ... > 6. tried manually applying DNS of HQ Domain Controllers
Are the HQ DCs the *only* DNS servers? Do an "IPCONFIG /ALL" and look for any DNS servers which are *not* the DCs. If any are listed, that's likely to be trouble. You should remove any DNS servers which are not DCs. (Your AD domain is prolly not public and if an ISP nameserver gets asked first, it will reply "non-existent domain" and then the client gives up.) Doesn't seem likely, given the scenario described, but it's a common failing generally, so I like to check it. -- Ben
