W2K & BIND: Can't join domain

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jul 10 20:02:38 UTC 2002


Amanda Searles wrote:

> I've been searching through posts, but I can't find a solution to this
> problem.  If anyone can offer suggestions I would really appreciate it.
>
> I have a Win2k server (upgraded from NT4) and about 30 Win2k clients.
> DNS for our site is handled through BIND on a linux box.  Bind is setup
> for dDNS and seems to return valid results ("netdiag /v" returns no
> errors and I'm able to view SRV records using nslookup.  I can send the
> output from the commands if it would be useful).  I'm able to ping the
> server name and the domain name successfully from the client machine.
>
> When I try to join one of the Win2k clients to the domain I get the
> following error: "The Specified network name is no longer available."
> The error logs on the client and the server show no errors.
>
> It seems to me that the client isn't able to find the appropriate
> services for logging on, which I think would be a DNS problem, but I'm
> not sure how to verify this or how to solve it.  If you can point me in
> the right direction it would be really appreciated.

You need to find some sort of Rosetta Stone that translates "The Specified
network name is no longer available" into something meaningful in
DNS/BIND terms. It's so vague, it could mean almost anything...


- Kevin




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