Re: "Access Denied" when attempting to join domain

From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Community Rocks (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:16:25 -0700

Who's running the DHCP and handing out the IP addresses?

Stephen wrote:
> I'm setting up a new installation of Win 2003 SBS for 15
> users, all of whom have Win2000 or XP Pro desktops. I've
> set up the users and some computers, using exactly the
> same patterns of rights, etc. But for some reason, I
> can't set up some of the workstations to connect to the
> domain. If I try to set up the machine by manually
> changing the computer settings - Computer Name and Domain
> Name - I get the following message:
>
> "The following error occured attempting to join the
> domain '<domainname>':
>
> "Access Denied."
>
> This happens on some machines, not on others. I've
> deleted the machines from the server and tried adding
> them back in or connecting without a pre-defined machine
> on the server. Same result.
>
> When I try to connect using the browser interface
> (http://>/Connect Computer) I get a less
> informative error - simply saying "Contact your
> administrator."
>
> Background:
>
> Initial install of trial version of Win2003SBS yesterday
> and added 10 purchased CAL licenses - not realizing I
> couldn't do that with an eval version. Today, purchased
> and upgraded the Standard Edition of Win2003SBS and re-
> added the 10 purchased CAL licenses. Could this have
> created problems?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated. We need to either have
> this box up and running tomorrow morning or roll back to
> our previous system.
>
> Thanks. 

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