each site has a dc and the correct subnet in Sites & Services, all the clocks are correct time & time zone
Jean-Paul Natola To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:25:08 -0700 Extreme time skew between PC and domain controller? Does the time zone, time, etc match? -- Mark [email protected] wrote on 03/11/2014 04:31:30 PM: > From: J- P <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > Date: 03/11/2014 04:31 PM > Subject: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain > Sent by: [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
