I have receive that error before because I had to use the fully qualified domain name “contoso.acme.com” (without the quotes of course).
Dave Landry Site Support Administrator From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hank Arnold Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re[2]: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain It's usually the wrong time zone for me. Regards, Hank Arnold [cid:[email protected]] Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 My Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ ------ Original Message ------ From: "Melvin Backus" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: 3/13/2014 1:31:39 PM Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain Good point. I’ve run across problems in the past where everything looked correct. Turned out the year was wrong. ☹ -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Mark Gottschalk Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:25 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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
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