Unable to Connect to Domain

I'm having a time attempting to connect to a domain. When I set up the
configuration via control panel, I'm presented with the following error when
I attempt to log in.

"The join operation was not sucessful. This could be because an existing
computer was previously created using a different set of credentials. Use a
different computer name, or contact your administrator to remove any stale
conflicting account. The error was: Access is denied."

I get this error no matter what I name I give the computer. The knowledge
base has nothing on this that I can find, and the only information I can
find on this in the wilds of google is in Russian.

Any clues here?

Jerome O'Neil wrote:
> I'm having a time attempting to connect to a domain. When I set up the
> configuration via control panel, I'm presented with the following error
> when I attempt to log in.
>
> "The join operation was not sucessful. This could be because an
> existing computer was previously created using a different set of
> credentials. Use a different computer name, or contact your
> administrator to remove any stale conflicting account. The error was:
> Access is denied."
>
> I get this error no matter what I name I give the computer. The
> knowledge base has nothing on this that I can find, and the only
> information I can find on this in the wilds of google is in Russian.
>
> Any clues here?


When a computer account is created on a Windows Server 2003 domain, the
individual creating said account can specify who, either by domain user
name or domain global security group membership, can actually add a
computer to the domain to use that specific computer account. By
default, the person who creates the computer account is the only one who
can subsequently add a computer of that name to the domain. Has the
person creating the computer account given you permissions (or the
requisite group membership) to add a computer using that specific name?



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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> When a computer account is created on a Windows Server 2003 domain, the
> individual creating said account can specify who, either by domain user
> name or domain global security group membership, can actually add a
> computer to the domain to use that specific computer account. By default,
> the person who creates the computer account is the only one who can
> subsequently add a computer of that name to the domain. Has the person
> creating the computer account given you permissions (or the requisite
> group membership) to add a computer using that specific name?

That's probably it. Its a fairly large corporate network, and the
restrictions are pretty tight.

I'll have their IT folks check on it, and see what's up.

Thanks!

-J