THEY'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!
Kerry, because everything else I tried failed, I ended up enabling NetBIOS
over TCP/IP on the adapters for both the DC and the machine I was attempting
to join to the domain. The domian join was immediately successful AND UNC
paths could be reached. Once joined, I disabled NETBT and the UNC paths were
once again unreachable!
Why is it that MS has encouraged removing WINS/NetBIOS from our domain, and
now with the "latest and greatest" (sic) VISTA, it is again required!!!???
Give me a friggin' break!
Nevertheless, thank you for your suggestion to look at enabling NetBIOS on
my NICS so that I could join the domain; problem solved.
J
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> Do you have a WINS server in the domain? Is the VPN connection set to use a
> DC on the domain for DNS and to use the WINS server for the domain? Is
> NETBIOS enabled on the VPN connection? When trying to join the domain are
> you using the NETBIOS name of the domain or the full name?
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> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
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