Re: Domain LOCAL is not available

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From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:12:24 +0100

So you called the DNS name of your Active Directory Local ? (as well I
assume as the NetBIOS domain name.)
Can you set up the Active Directory again and this time use a more common
full qualified multi part DNS name for it for example Local.net or some form
of your own externally registered DNS namespace as per our recommended
practices for Serve 2003 Forest naming.

(For the purest out there I realise that Local. (with the dot) is a valid
DNS name but it represents a top level domain and notionally should not be
used) 

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"Ian O'Betz" <webmaster@(NoSpam)premier-ed.com> wrote in message 
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>I am trying to log a computer on to a new installation of windows 2003
> server. Each time I try to log on to the domain at the first start up
> screen, I receive the error message: The system cannot log you on now
> because the domain LOCAL is not available.
>
> In the My Computer setup of the computer, I have the computer setup to be 
> on
> a domain instead of a workgroup. The computer name is SCA and I have it
> setup as sca.local (with local as the domain) in the Computer Name tab of
> Properties in my computer. It seems to conenct just fine and can navigate 
> to
> the server on the net.
>
> I have the username "sca" setup in the AD with the following members: 
> Domain
> Users, DHCP Users, and Users. It is still giving me this error message. 
> Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
>
> --
> Thanks
> Ian O'Betz
>
>
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