Joining Vista Ultimate to a Windows 2000 Domain

[Guest]

Have you ran into something like this before?

I am tring to join a new Acer Aspire 5680 laptop running Vista Ultimate to a
Windows 2000 domain for one of my customers. Should be a piece of cake,
right? Not so much!!!

After reading a lot of messages posted on the web, I have disabled IPv6 on
the network adapter, but that is about it.

I have never had an issue adding a Win2K Pro or XP Pro PC to this same
domain.
Any advice is appreciated.

Error....

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Join a Domain or Workgroup

An Active Directory Domain Controller for the domain BRE-MAR.COM could not
be contacted.

Ensure that the domain name is typed correctly.

If the name is correct, click Details for troubleshooting information.

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Error details.....

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DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record
used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain BRE-MAR.COM:
The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.BRE-MAR.COM

The following AD DCs were identified by the query:

server.bre-mar.com

Common causes of this error include:

- Host (A) records that map the name of the AD DCs to its IP addresses are
missing or contain incorrect addresses.

- Active Directory Domain Controllers registered in DNS are not connected to
the network or are not running.

For information about correcting this problem, click Help.

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[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Any error if using nslookup in the Vista?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Have you ran into something like this before?

I am tring to join a new Acer Aspire 5680 laptop running Vista Ultimate to a
Windows 2000 domain for one of my customers. Should be a piece of cake,
right? Not so much!!!

After reading a lot of messages posted on the web, I have disabled IPv6 on
the network adapter, but that is about it.

I have never had an issue adding a Win2K Pro or XP Pro PC to this same
domain.
Any advice is appreciated.

Error....

******************
Join a Domain or Workgroup

An Active Directory Domain Controller for the domain BRE-MAR.COM could not
be contacted.

Ensure that the domain name is typed correctly.

If the name is correct, click Details for troubleshooting information.

******************

Error details.....

-----------------

DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record
used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain BRE-MAR.COM:
The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.BRE-MAR.COM

The following AD DCs were identified by the query:

server.bre-mar.com

Common causes of this error include:

- Host (A) records that map the name of the AD DCs to its IP addresses are
missing or contain incorrect addresses.

- Active Directory Domain Controllers registered in DNS are not connected to
the network or are not running.

For information about correcting this problem, click Help.

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[Guest]

Can you be more specific...as in how I should be using nslookup to test
things out. I used it a few times on the vista laptop with no issues, but I
may not have tried using it the way you have in mind.

 

[Michael A. Bishop \(MSFT\)]

Okay, let's step through the error message. It identifies
server.bre-mar.com as the DC for the domain -- is that correct? If not, why
is its DNS query giving wrong information? Is the DC also the DNS server,
or is the DNS for this domain delegated back to a DC?

If that is correct, why can't it resolve the address? Can you ping
server.bre-mar.com and get a response? Does that resolve to a particular IP
address?