Windows cannot connect to the domain - what worked for me

"Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because domain the
domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your
computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this
message continues to appear, contact your network administrator for
assistance.".


In our case, a tech replaced a PC named "xyz" with another PC named
"xyz" without deleting the "xyz" computer account in AD before joining
the new PC to the domain. This probably causes a SID problem
eventually because it worked OK for a few days, then puked.

I deleted the computer account in AD, then logged into the PC as the
local admin, UNjoined the domain (no reboot), renamed the PC anyways
just for safety sake (no reboot), rejoined the domain & then rebooted.
This resolved the problem, and it didn't hose the user profiles.

me too the same?? help

Thanks a million Doug. I have been trying to get my XPE thin Client added to my domain for quite a while and finally did it with your advise. It must have been a conflict of some sort.

Thanks again for the great post!

Trent Greenawalt
Anderson Pump & Process
Www.aaaco.com

Thanks for the advice, you helped me. For any future searchers it's worth noting that youmay have to reboot between removing from the domain and rejoining. I didn't do that (XP Pro SP3) and kept getting an error about user not found (it couldn't remove or rename the computer in AD as it no longer existed).