Steve Jolley

Hi Breakingcustom and Kerry, I have the same crazy situation, except it is happening on just one of my Vista Business laptops. Have two others and more 12 XP Pro machines all connecting to my SBS R1 domain no problem. This one machine just will not connect and get the same error message "Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error occured:An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a DC in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain."

I had previously contact Microsoft and they reviewed my DNS and AD on my SBS and all was fine (I am using the router for DHCP). My local server is lercabo.local. Judging by all the posts on this forum and others, I am not alone in encountering this error.

I have compared the IPCONFIG of each of the other VISTA machines and what seems to be wrong with this one is that the DNS server on the Wireless Adpater is the same as the DHCP gateway. My gateway (router) is 192.168.0.1 and my server is set at 192.168.0.15. I cannot see a way to change the setting displayed in IPCONFIG for the DNS to 192.168.0.15. I guess that happens automatically once a connection to the server is established.

Would welcome your comments.

PS> Microsoft did advise me to change the DHCP to the Server rather than the router. However, since my other Vista and XP machines are all connecting fine, I am rather reluctant to go that route.

Steve