Re: Cannot Logon to Domain, only new PC

From: Dan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:43:32 -0700

>Reset the computer to a workgroup. Delete the old
computer account(s) from
>the server. Rejoin the domain. Does that help?

Thanks for the advise, this worked. Don't know why i
didn't think to try that, i guess one shouldn't really
have to do this. I did try disabling/enabling and
resetting the computer account, and also manual creating
a "new" one. hmmmm stupid windows :)

>-----Original Message-----
>Dan wrote:
>> I have a new PC on the domain.
>>
>> The user first connected the PC to the network her self
>> (grrrrrr). The PC name being "Kellie", the replaced PC
>> also "Kellie". The were both on the domain and logged
in
>> (same user same PC name) and working. Thinking to
avoid
>> issues until the OLD PC was completely removed from the
>> network i renamed it to "KellieOLD".
>> Doing this stopped the "OLD" PC logging onto the domain
>> with the error
>> "Windows cannot connect to the domain or because domain
>> controller is unavailable or your computer account was
>> not found."
>> This "KellieOLD" does have an automaticly generated
entry
>> on the "Computers" section of the AD.
>>
>> NOW the new PC "Kellie" reports the same error and the
>> prevoius entry of "Kellie" in "Computers" under the AD
is
>> gone (perhaps automaticly changed with the old PC
renamed
>> to KellieOLD). I added an entry "kellie" to Computer
in
>> the AD but still no luck.
>>
>> Any ideas would be great, i've yet to reset the server,
>> but this will be next save upsetting the users.
>
>Reset the computer to a workgroup. Delete the old
computer account(s) from
>the server. Rejoin the domain. Does that help?
>
>>
>> Dan
>
>
>.
>

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