Re: Help with Automatic enrollment errors, SBS2003 and XP clients

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

1. Run the CEICW wizard (item 2 on the To Do List on Server Manager).
2. Point the workstation DNS, WINS at the SBS2003 server.

This will solve your problem. The wizard sets up the SBS networking
including DNS and DNS forwarding properly. The workstations will only query
the SBS server for DNS which will solve the autoenrollment problem. If the
workstation wants an internet site, the SBS DNS will work out that it can't
resolve the name and will forward the request to your ISPs DNS server. The
workstation will get the answer it needs to reach the internet site.

Karl from Oz


"Steven Monacoi" <smonacoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DcOdnYO3upU-3iXeRVn-jg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> All,
>
> We have a 5 Windows XP client and a SBS2003 server network. The server is
> behind a linksys router which is also the DHCP server. The WAN IP is
> rec'd via DHCP from our ISP.
>
>
>
> All of the XP client computers are receiving the following errors in
> system event:
>
> 1. "Automatic certificate enrollment to local system failed to contact the
> active directory (0x8007054b). The specified domain either does not exist
> or could not be contacted.
>
> AND
>
> 2. "Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
> network (the specified domain either does not exist or could not be
> contacted). Group Policy processing aborted.
>
>
>
> Each of 5 XP computers can get to the SBS server, successfully browse the
> internet and net neighborhood. All belong to the same "domain.local".
>
> Each of the computers is using "obtain Primary DNS automatically" and when
> commanding IPCONFIG /ALL at their respective prompts, all show the ISP's
> Primary DNS as Primary and 10.10.10.10 as secondary DNS.
>
>
>
> Is this the reason why I'm seeing the above errors???
>
>
>
> Should the client PCs primary DNS point to the SBS2003 server??? This
> is where I am confused. According to Microsoft "help" files on the SBS
> server, the client PCs primary DNS should point to the SBS 2003 server and
> NOT the ISP's primary DNS However, when I point the clients to the SBS
> server as the primary DNS, they can NO LONGER browse the internet.
>
> What am I doing wrong??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>


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