Network Path Not Found

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Help!

I have recently been hired to be the IT admin for a screwed up network
comprising various Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Pro and Home machines. The
network is based on Windows 2003 Standard Server with a domain which had
been upgraded from Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The domain schema was
established by a variety of previous admins and is a problem itself. I have
added myself to the AD as a member of the Administrators Group.
The problem at hand is joining a recently rebuilt Win2K machine to the
domain. When I loaded the OS onto the machine I set it up as a workgroup for
both expedience and the fact that the hardware had been giving trouble.
I have debugged the hardware but when I try to join the domain I receive the
error 'Network Path Not Found'. I can browse the network and open the shares
on the server yet I cannot join the domain.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Kevin Young
Iridium Industries
 
This is most likely a DNS issues. Is this machine pointing to your internal
DNS server for it's DNS settings?
 
Kevin Young said:
Help!

I have recently been hired to be the IT admin for a screwed up network
comprising various Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Pro and Home machines. The
network is based on Windows 2003 Standard Server with a domain which had
been upgraded from Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The domain schema was
established by a variety of previous admins and is a problem itself. I have
added myself to the AD as a member of the Administrators Group.
The problem at hand is joining a recently rebuilt Win2K machine to the
domain. When I loaded the OS onto the machine I set it up as a workgroup for
both expedience and the fact that the hardware had been giving trouble.
I have debugged the hardware but when I try to join the domain I receive the
error 'Network Path Not Found'. I can browse the network and open the shares
on the server yet I cannot join the domain.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Kevin Young
Iridium Industries
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Joining a domain implies that you have a method to resolve one of its Domain
Controllers. Either configure the DHCP scope option that specifies the DNS
server for DHCP clients or modify the tcp/ip properties of the prospecting
client to include the address of the DNS server. A third way is to add an
entry to the client's hosts file pointing to a DC.

Joining a domain implies being authenticated by a DC.
 
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