Re: XP Pro can't join W2K domain, or get to internet

From: Alan Baldwin (fineimages77_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:22:26 -0400

Mike,
>>NetBIOS should not resolve the problem, but it could cause it if it was
installed.
HMM, I didn't know that. I have run into a few times where a Windows 2000
workstation wouldn't join a Windows NT 4.0 domain using TCP/IP, but if I
enabled NetBIOS, it joined fine. Then I removed NerBIOS, and TCP was
working from then on. Pretty weird.

Funny you should mention taking the IP of an existing machine. I did that,
using the workstation at the desk I was using. I hooked that computer back
up, checked the IP it was getting, turned it off, went to server and
deleated that IP from the leases, then gave that as a static for the laptop.
(Same subnet, gateway and DNS.) Still didn't work. On that same note, one
other thing I tried was using the DNS numbers from the ISP, just to see if I
could get it to go out to the Internet, but it didn't. I figured it
wouldn't solve the problem, since IP numbers weren't getting out past the
Gateway anyhow when I pinged them.

Date and time were the first things I discovered to be way off, and thought
that I had foudn the problem. I was quite excited, thinking surely that was
it. Wrong. <G> Date and time match the server within about 1 minute now.
Still didn't help.

>>Where is Win2K server DNS setting point at? It should point back at itself
>>(server's own IP should be under TCP/IP settings -> DNS server setting) if
AD server is also DNS server.
HMM, that looks like it wasn't set up correctly. I will change that when I
go over there. I have the ISP DNS settings in the DNS box on the server TCP
properties. This was the first Windows 2000 Server I ever set up 3-4 years
ago, so I guess I messed that up. I'll have to fix that. I just never
noticed it before, and since it was working, didn't think anything of it.
Thanks for that call!

>>Check that AD DNS service is running and restart NetLogon service on AD
(Don't disable the service, just restart it).
Will try that when I get there.

Sounds like I have 3-4 things to try now when I get back over there. Thanks
Mike!!! I will post back my findings.
Alan

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