Re: ConnectComputer, Reboot, can't connect to domain.

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From: Ray Fong [MSFT] (rayfong_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:43:32 GMT

You may want to unjoin the machine from the domain. Remove the computer
account from AD Users and Computers. Run Setup Computer Wizard to create
the computer agian. Then back to the workstation and use ConnectComputer to
join to the domain.

Ray Fong
Microsoft SBS Product Support

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>I didn't use the same domain name. It used to be PCI and it got changed to
>PUBC.Local.
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>3 machines worked perfectly, the others just all failed after reboot. Only
>thing different between the 3 that worked was that they had a different
>Ethernet card in them.
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