Join a Tablet PC to a domain

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So my office got me a new HP tc4400 tablet PC with XP Pro on it, the official
Corporate IT guy finally came round to connect it to the domain, after he
left I restarted went to log in and the thing just hung at the applying
computer settings screen. I waited almost half a day for it to finally get to
the desktop and when it did the thing was messed. I have had to reinstall the
OS and reconnect to the domain but the same thing happened. We run a small
office with only about 5 of us on the domain and our server is a SBS which is
only about a year old.

Does anyone know why this would be happening or what we can do to sort it
out as I've had the machine for a week now and can't use it for anything
other than surfing the net unless we can connect it to the domain, which
really sucks.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

So my office got me a new HP tc4400 tablet PC with XP Pro on it, the
official Corporate IT guy finally came round to connect it to the
domain, after he left I restarted went to log in and the thing just
hung at the applying computer settings screen. I waited almost half a
day for it to finally get to the desktop and when it did the thing
was messed. I have had to reinstall the OS and reconnect to the
domain but the same thing happened. We run a small office with only
about 5 of us on the domain and our server is a SBS which is only
about a year old.

Does anyone know why this would be happening or what we can do to
sort it out as I've had the machine for a week now and can't use it
for anything other than surfing the net unless we can connect it to
the domain, which really sucks.

What did your corporate IT guy say or try when you told him about the
problem? ;-) Reinstalling doesn't make any sense....

You might post in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs and mention what you
see in your event logs. what you're seeing is likely due to group policy,
and it's possible your workstation or server (or both) is misconfigured.

First, check to make sure you have only the SBS server's IP listed for DNS
in your workstation's ipconfig.