The network name cannot be found.

[Samy]

I am trying to join a new machine running Win2K Pro to our
domain but am receiving the following error.

Your computer could not be joined to the domain because
the following error has occured:
The network name cannot be found.

I have set up the nic correctly as i can ping the dc and
get on the internet, i have added the new computer name to
active directory on the dc and get 75% of the way through
the process of adding it to the domain. When i use the
network identification wizard, i get up to the point where
i specify a domain username and password, and then the
machine says that it has found an account for the machine
name and do i want to use it? I click ok and continue,
it is at this point that i get the error. It is driving
me nuts.

Please help

Samy

 

[Blaze]

Try deleting the machines account in the AD or renaming the machine... also
run newsid on the machine and try again...

also do you have DNS active on the DC?

 

[Vince]

It's got to be the name. Change the Name, restart and then connect. I get
this problem all the time coz we clone hard disks and therefore the
computers have the same names.
Vince