Re: Setting up a small office W2K server

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From: Laura E. Hunter \(MVP\) ("Laura)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:29:07 -0400

There's obviously some kind of connectivity issue with the XP workstations
that isn't present on the 2K workstations.

[1] Can you ping the server by its IP address from the XP workstations?
How 'bout the 2K ones?

[2] Can you ping the server's DNS name from XP? 2000?

[3] Can you ping the server's NetBIOS name from XP? 2000?

If you're having trouble with [1], you have a physical connectivity problem.
[2] and [3] point to a name resolution issue - have you installed DNS on
your server and configured your clients to point to it?

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"Randy" <Randy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6CC6C24A-1313-4B35-B51A-3E63C56A6211@microsoft.com...
>I setup a W2K server for a user that has 6 desktops (W2K and XP mix)I
> installed the server with AD, created the users and shared directories. I
> have them attached to a linksys 8 port switch. When I try to join the
> computers to the new domain the W2K desktop had no problems when I tried
> joining the XP desktops with SP2 to the domain, the domain was not
> available
> the message stated that check the name, make sure it wasn't spelled wrong
> and
> so on.
>
> Can I remove AD from the W2K server and make it a workgroup? And just have
> the desktops join a workgroup? Or what am I doing wrong? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thank you
>

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