Re: cannot join WinXP to Windows 2000 domain

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Hello Russell,

What is the error message during the join process?
Also you mix a bit 2 different items, client join problem and DC diagnostic/troubleshooting tools. So if you think there are domain problems run dcdiag, netdiag and repadmin /showreps and post the complete output here. For the clients check that they have the correct ip settings, subnet mask and only domain internal DNS server. Make sure that no firewall is enabled.

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Meinolf Weber
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I have previously been successful joining WinXP PC to this Win2000
domain. Have 2 new PCs with WinXP SP3 that will not join the domain.
dcdiag.txt output is show below. nslookup resolves the server name
fine. I do not have reverse DNS zone configured. (never needed that
in past for joining PC to this domain). I'm stumped. Any suggestions
appreciated. Russell

------dcdiag.txt ___
The domain name ccs might be a NetBIOS domain name. If this is the
case,
verify that the domain name is properly registered with WINS.
If you are certain that the name is not a NetBIOS domain name, then
the following information can help you troubleshoot your DNS
configuration.

DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource
record used to locate a domain controller for domain ccs:

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ccs The
following domain controllers were identified by the query:
ccsserver.ccs

Common causes of this error include:
- Host (A) records that map the name of the domain controller to its
IP
addresses are missing or contain incorrect addresses.
- Domain controllers registered in DNS are not connected to the
network or
are not running.
For information about correcting this problem, click Help.
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