Have you tried putting the DC in the host file? John W. Cook Director of Network Operations Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security + VSP4, VTSP4 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain 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]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain From: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<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
