RE: XP Clients on Server 2003 Drop Domain



"Dennis Morgan, PGASD TECH" wrote:

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> "Rafal W." wrote:
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> > "Dennis Morgan, PGASD TECH" wrote:
> >
> > > We have 650 machines at our school and have been switching over to Windows
> > > XP. The problem is that every summer our cleaning staff moves EVERY computer
> > > out of their loacations to clean. When we put our xp machines back in place
> > > approximately 90% of them have dropped connection to our domain. We then
> > > have to log in locally and rejoin domains. This is just not feasible and I
> > > was wondering what I am missing or what I can do different to keep this from
> > > happening. I am logging onto a Windows Server 2003 domain. Thanks for any
> > > help you can give me on this issue. By the way, there are six totally
> > > different configurations of machines and NONE are even similar!
> >
> >
> >
> > when client is back on its desk what error message your are getting? for how
> > long these PCs are not being connected to network? how do these accounts look
> > like in AD? are they disabled? when you logon locally are you getting all
> > expected info from DHCP? any errors in logs on client and DC?
> > and by the way adding any entries, as someone sugested to host file will not
> > solve anything.
> >
> > Rafal W.
> > MCSE, MCDBA
> >
> >
> > We are getting the following error message " the computer cannot connect to the domain controller" They are offline for less than one week. The logins are a generic login we use for students with no expiration date on passwords. All info from DHCP seems to be fine. the error logs in the event viewer state a problem with the server defining the computer name?!?!Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1053
Date: 7/22/2005
Time: 8:28:49 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: PINE-DLN21KXVBN
Description:
Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (Access is denied. ).
Group Policy processing aborted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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