AD: "Network Path Not Found"

Fresh Vista Enterprise install. I am a Student Adminstrator with Admin rights
to a college specific OU. I have disabled IPv6 and set the Netbios to TCP/IP
but I still get the aforementioned error when attemtping to join the domain.
It's been a long day, and this is a dificult subject to blindly search. Any
ideas? Advice? I'm new to Active Directory, but I am capable and competent.

That's usually a DNS problem. The computer you are trying to join to the
domain must be set to use a domain DNS server and no other DNS servers.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"bv" <bv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Fresh Vista Enterprise install. I am a Student Adminstrator with Admin
> rights
> to a college specific OU. I have disabled IPv6 and set the Netbios to
> TCP/IP
> but I still get the aforementioned error when attemtping to join the
> domain.
> It's been a long day, and this is a dificult subject to blindly search.
> Any
> ideas? Advice? I'm new to Active Directory, but I am capable and
> competent.

Wild goose chase.
The problem was due to some incompatibilities with older hardware in Vista's
new network stack.

Using an administrative command prompt:

netsh in tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

This solved the problem for me, unless you can give a reason for not issuing
that command.



"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> That's usually a DNS problem. The computer you are trying to join to the
> domain must be set to use a domain DNS server and no other DNS servers.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca

That command is necessary with some old networking hardware.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"bv" <bv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9820512D-AA4D-4C0D-A971-84A685917AC5@microsoft.com...
> Wild goose chase.
> The problem was due to some incompatibilities with older hardware in
> Vista's
> new network stack.
>
> Using an administrative command prompt:
>
> netsh in tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable
>
> This solved the problem for me, unless you can give a reason for not
> issuing
> that command.
>
>
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>
>> That's usually a DNS problem. The computer you are trying to join to the
>> domain must be set to use a domain DNS server and no other DNS servers.
>>
>> --
>> Kerry Brown
>> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
>> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>