Re: Cannot logo to Win 2003 Enterprise 32-bit

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:35:46 -0500

If you tried to join it to the domain when you did the installation then
maybe it is misconfigured or it can not find the domain controller. A W2003
domain computer must point to a domain controller running dns with the
Active Directory domain in it's tcp/ip properties as preferred dns server
and as shown in Ipconfig /all, and never have any ISP dns servers listed.
Even so, you should be able to logon to the local computer [computer's name
shown] in the logon to box if the domain is not available. --- Steve

"Muhammad-Ali Clay" <MuhammadAliClay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1AC7D66C-C8BA-4E27-865C-88038403B406@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
>
> I've just installed Windows Server 2003 Entreprise Edition 32-bit and the
> first time I went to log on, I received:
>
> The specified domain does not exist or either cannot be contacted
> --
> Muhammad-Ali.

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