Joining Vista to 2003 Business Server Domain

J

Joseph

When attempting to join a vista machine to an established domain I receive
the following error.
“Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following
occurred:
An attempt to resolve the DNS name of the DC in the domain being joined has
failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that
can resolve DNS names in the target domain.â€

What configuration setting is needed to allow Vista to find and join the
domain?
 
K

Kerry Brown

Is this Small Business Server 2003. There are some updates for both Vista
and SBS 2003 that need to be installed.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926505

It sounds like you may have the DNS settings on the Vista client set wrong
as well. To join a domain the client has to be using an AD integrated DNS
server.
 

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