No domain controller

[Guest]

I'm trying to get a computer from a remote office to logon to our domain. It
logged on before it left the main office and now it tells me that there is no
domain controller to logon to. We've tried assinging an IP address to it and
I've deleted the account from the active directory and added in again. What
can I try next?

 

[MPerrault]

you can login to the computer with the network cable unplugged. it
will login using cashed credetials, romove machine from domain, it will
time out and say the computer has been removed, don't reboot.. plug
machine back in, make sure machine account is erased from ad, then
rejoin the domain and reboot. all should be good after that.

Michael P. Perrault
MCSE, CCNA, A+, MBA
Senior Systems Engineer,
ScriptLogic Corporation

(e-mail address removed)
www.scriptlogic.com

 

[Guest]

you can login to the computer with the network cable unplugged. it
will login using cashed credetials, romove machine from domain, it will
time out and say the computer has been removed, don't reboot.. plug
machine back in, make sure machine account is erased from ad, then
rejoin the domain and reboot. all should be good after that.

Michael P. Perrault
MCSE, CCNA, A+, MBA
Senior Systems Engineer,
ScriptLogic Corporation

(e-mail address removed)
www.scriptlogic.com

Thanks for the reply but that didn't work. It's now saying that there are no
logon servers available.

It would login and I could access all areas when it left this office but now
it won't logon to the domain from the remote office. When I'd try pinging it
from the server at first, I'd get an old IP Address that it couldn't possibly
be for that computer. The computers in this office use 192.168.1.xx the
computers there use 192.168.2.xx. I found a place to change that and did, now
it pings to the correct address.

 

[Danny Sanders]

How are you connecting to the remote office? VPN?


DDS

 

[Guest]

How are you connecting to the remote office? VPN?


DDS

Yeah, it's a VPN connection. I've got it now though. I copied a .bat file I
use for mapping the network drives on the few XP Home machines we have here
and it mapped the drives like it should have at logon. I have no idea what it
did but it's working now.

Thanks for the help though.