Connecting vista to a domain

[Guest]

Hi,

just a quick question: Which versions of vista can connect to a windows 2003
active directory domain?

Thanks

 

[Kerry Brown]

Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. If the domain is SBS based you need some
updates for the server to get full SBS functionality.

 

[Guest]

I purchased a new workstation for our office with Vista Ultimate. Our server
is running SBS 2003. I just updated the server to SP1. I've gone through
all the updates that I could find in order for the workstation to join the
domain. I also confirmed that the Computer Name and User Accounts have been
added to the server. However, I'm still not able to get the Vista
workstation to see the server. When I try to change to the appropriate
domain, I get the following error message (I've been pulling my hair out for
the last two days trying to figure this out so any help would be greatly
appreciated!!!):

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An Active Directory Domain Controller for the domain HRE.LOCAL could not be
contacted. Ensure that the domain name is typed correctly. If the name is
correct, click Details for troubleshooting information.

Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you are
not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received
this information, which has been recorded in the file
C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt.

The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location
(SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller
for domain HRE.LOCAL:

The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.HRE.LOCAL

Common causes of this error include the following:

- The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not
registered in DNS. These records are registered with a DNS server
automatically when a AD DC is added to a domain. They are updated by the AD
DC at set intervals. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the
following IP addresses:

167.206.3.228
167.206.3.161
167.206.3.227

- One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child
zone:

HRE.LOCAL
LOCAL
.. (the root zone)

For information about correcting this problem, click Help.
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[Kerry Brown]

Those are public IP addresses for the DNS servers. Normally with SBS the
clients should only be pointing to the SBS server for DNS and nothing else.
This could also mean you have the domain name wrong. Did you install the SBS
server updates for Vista clients?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=9bf2f1e4-1b2c-471b-a284-e0c8c169fac3

 

[Michael A. Bishop \(MSFT\)]

You've entered a DNS name for the domain (hre.local). Vista is trying to do
a DNS lookup to find the DC, but is failing because that domain is not
registered externally, where your DNS servers are. You have a few options:
- point your Vista box to the DC for DNS service; configure the DC to
forward requests for non-local domains to your ISP's servers.
- Try joining with the domain name "hre" rather than "hre.local". Since
it's not a DNS name, Vista should broadcast for the name and find the DC if
it's on the same subnet.