Re: Adding new users to a w2k server failure
From: CRIS HANNA \(SBS-MVP\) (crishannanospam_at_computingpossibilities.net)
Date: 09/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:48:52 -0500
Is the laptop by chance XP Home Edition and not XP Pro??
-- Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP) _____________________ Please only respond in the Newsgroup and not directly to me, so that everyone can share the information "Shackster" <jasper_one@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:7d85ef3b.0409221141.1fa36a8a@posting.google.com... Our network admin left on bad terms last week and is unavailable for help. I am the next best thing to an admin. I have very little experience in network admin. The right thing to do here is hire an outside network person. We are a very small business and we are strapped financially. I know the risks involved in trying to do what I need to do myself and am willing to take the chance. I need to add a workstation (older compaq laptop running xp) to the small business server using the SBS admin console. I have a laptop that I need to add. Not a new user, a new workstation. I go into the admin console and under computers I click on client computer set up. When prompted for a computer name I enter jeff02 (jeff01 is my desktop). I click next and choose not to install any applications and choose next again and it prompts me to insert a floppy disk into the A: drive. I do so and successfully create the client computer set up disk. When I run the program from the newly created floppy, it asks me to select the computer name from a list. JEFF02 (yes this matches the computer on the laptop in my network places) is there and I select it. Next it asks me to add users to a list that will have admin rights and I select myself and administrator. Then it asks me for the admin password and I enter that. Then I am instructed to close out any auto login program and I do so as well as all other programs that are open. It starts to do it's thing and that's where I get stuck. The error message that pops up is "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. Cannot set computer name 'JEFF02'. I repeated the process of running the setup disk but this time I entered my normal username and password that I use to log in each morning with the same results (I get the same error). I do have admin rights on the laptop that I am trying to add to the system as well as the server. I would like in advance to thank anyone that might have a suggestion as to what I am doing incorrectly. Or if anyone has a better way to add a workstation. Thank you^3 Shackster
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