Vista Tutorial - Vista Cannot Connect to Server 2003 Domain

Kerry I truly appreciate your help and patience. I got my laptop to connect as well to the domain. I basically had no experience with this operating system and that link you sent me worked better than any of the books I read. The last question I has is about wireless. My laptop has wireless has well. Do I need to set the settings manually in TCP/IP as well?

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : conlan-pc
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : breakingcustom.lan
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : breakingcustom.lan

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-F2-05-AB-3C
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.103
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.104
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.104

I will be fooling around with it more but I accomplished my main goal. Thanks again.

"Breakingcustom" <Breakingcustom.37ejj2@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Yes, if you are not using the server for DHCP then you will have to at least
set the DNS server manually.

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
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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

Hi Steve

you can try this command in command line
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.15

Also check in your network connection settings wheter there any additonal dns server address set up.

Hope this helps

Cheers !!!

thanks John - that worked fine! I then rebooted and checked again and the correct DNS entry was there in IPCONFIG.