Ryan Casey wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to join a Windows 7 client to a samba domain. We're >running samba 3.3.9 from SerNet. I've changed the registry settings >on the Win7 client per the wiki page >(http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7). > >Unfortunately, I'm still getting: >The following error occurred attempting to join the domain because the >following error has occurred: The specified domain either does not >exist or could not be contacted. > >Before I found the wiki page, I tried some other settings from blogs, >etc. I think I have reverted the machine back to its default >settings. > >Also, I am able to join two other Win7 clients to the domain. > >Any idea what could be wrong with the one client? The machine can >browse to file shares on the samba server. > >I don't see any error messages in the samba logs. > >Thanks, >-Ryan Casey
Last time I saw something like this, it was because the client (Win XP) did not have a WINS server set, and couldn’t find the domain. Can you ping the server from the problem client - by IP address and by name? Is its firewall blocking any SMB ports? Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba