On Dec 13, 9:59 am, kari...@xxxxxx wrote:
Quote:
> HELP!!!
> just purchased 2 laptops withvistahome premuim, upgraded to
> ultimate
> because these are used in an office enviroment, in a windows 2003 AD,
> both
> were able tojointhedomainwithout any problems, suddenly one was
> unable
> to see network shares, removed fromdomain(to workgroup) and now it
> does not
> want tojointhedomain, nor I can see any network shares. it gives
> me :
>
> "The format of the specified network name is invalid" error.
>
> I have:
>
> changed the name of the computer (ILSPC01)
> verified theDNSis the same as the AD
> can ping to the server name
> able to browse internet
> re-installedvistaultimate
> removed hard drive and installed on other latptop (same symptoms)
> removed entry from active directory
> reset computer in AD
> conected wireless, conected directly
> manual IP, DHCP IP
> disabled firewall
> disabled tcp v6
> netdiag and dcdiag without any errors
> installed an external nic
> able to ping by name and nslookup
> only have oneDNS, and its the DC
> update latest hotfixes, patches
> ran vistas diagnose without any errors
> no errors en event log
> tried FQDN, server. local, server.domain.net,domain.net, etc etc etc
>
> Im out of ideas.. please help!
> this is teh bosses pc, to make matters worse...
>
> dammvista!
>
> Carlos, CNE, MCSE
I had the same problem, called MS. They had me try <domain
name>.local and that worked