Re: logon failed when trying to access server

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:59:41 -0400

In news:2f0fb01c46bba$6447c250$a301280a@phx.gbl,
Shawn <ssmcad@direcway.com> asked for help and I offered my suggestions
below:
> I am trying to access my server and I get an error;
> Error 2215: computername is not accessible. The logon
> server cannot be found
> I went to microsoft's website for support and it says to
> create a workgroup and name it workgroup then restart the
> computer and I can then access the network without cached
> credentials. But I can't figure out how to set up this
> workgroup. Anyone have a fix for this??

If you;re using AD (SBS already set it up for you) and you are getting
'computername is not accessible' and 'logon server cannot be found' points
to a DNS resolution issue. Make sure your client machine is ONLY using the
SBS server's IP address for DNS. If you have an ISP's or some other DNS in
there, then I can see why this error shows up. AD uses DNS to 'find' the
domain and to 'find' the domain controller to authenticate. It does not work
like NT4.

This is all assuming of course, that you do have an AD account created and
the machine is joined to the domain. 

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