Re: Adding new users to a w2k server failure

From: CRIS HANNA \(SBS-MVP\) (crishannanospam_at_computingpossibilities.net)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:52:55 -0500

if you go to My Computer >Properties>ComputerName
is it set to a domain or a workgroup

Also, can you manually set a static IP the workstation to match the domain subnet scheme?? 

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Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)
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  "Shackster" <jasper_one@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:7d85ef3b.0409221955.3ac1dc3f@posting.google.com...
  The laptop is a windows xp pro machine
  "CRIS HANNA \(SBS-MVP\)" <crishannanospam@computingpossibilities.net> wrote in message news:<umeZlzNoEHA.1800@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>...
  > Is the laptop by chance XP Home Edition and not XP Pro??
  > 
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  > 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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