I have an issue with one of my machines. I have a windows 2003 server machine that is the DHCP, DNS, and AD DC. We have about 20 machines connected to this domain successfully but are having issues with one machine.
The machine was once on the domain and up until Friday it had no problems, but yesterday it lost access to all share drives. I have removed it from the domain with plans to add it back on but am unable. If I try to join the domain using "abc" I get:
An Active Directory Domain Controller for the domain "abc" could not be contacted
If I try and add it via "abc.local" I get a username and password prompt and then the following error when I click Ok:
The network location cannot be reached..
I am trying to join the domain using my admin account. I have browsed google looking for answers but haven't really found anything useful.
EDIT: For more info, I can ping my server using it's computer name and IP address. I can ping my broken computer from the server using the IP address but not the computer name.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Best Answer
That sounds like a network issue.
Try the following:
Open a command line as administrator and type:
Under "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection" you should have an IPv4 address listed (and not an auto-discovered one like 169.254.xxx.xxx)
If that works, the start nslookup (still from the command line and type
That should return the name an address of your DC machine.
Try it and report back. Also important. check your event log and report any error you see there.