Good point. I've run across problems in the past where everything looked
correct. Turned out the year was wrong. :(
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those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Mark Gottschalk
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain
Extreme time skew between PC and domain controller? Does the time zone, time,
etc match?
-- Mark
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote on
03/11/2014 04:31:30 PM:
> From: J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>,
> Date: 03/11/2014 04:31 PM
> Subject: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain
> Sent by: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>
> 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
