Unable to readd Windows XP client to domain

[ddemore]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to readd a Windows XP client to it’s old domain. It was removed for a brief period to do some testing. The client has not been re-installed.

I have removed the old computer name from OD, but when trying to add it, I get the following error: “The following error has occurred attempting to join the domain . Access is denied”

Well I know it’s not the username/password problem since I have used that account several times to add machines.

Has anyone else seen this error.. Any thought on how to fix it.

Thanks.

[general_ludd]

Did you find an answer to your problem? I am having the same trouble. I have two XP SP2 workstations that were bound to our old OS X 10.3 server. We setup a new Xserve with 10.4.6 after taking down the old server. We are using the same domain.

I can’t seem to get the Windows clients to rebind to the new server. I have removed them from the domain, and made them part of a workgroup. Changed the workgroup to something other than the given domain/workgroup. Shut down the computers. Restarted without ethernet connection. Rebound them, with apparent success, but every time I try to log in, I get an error the that domain “is not available.”

[douglasgb]

Make sure the clock on the client is within a few minutes (3 mins I think) of the server, because Kerberos authentication depends on it.

Also, you can try removing the machine records. Take the clients machines out of the domain (set the to a some bogus etmp workgroup) then open Workgroup Manager and go to Accounts / Machines / Windows clients and delete the clients from the list (and click Save). Then go back to the clients and try to join the domain.

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