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Tuesday the laptop wasn’t used. Wednesday, we get a call informing us of this issue. The user told me that Time Warner Cable came out to install a new modem on Monday and he is the only one having these issues.
What else could I try to resolve this issue? When you try the domain join, what error do you receive? Has the old domain account for the computer been removed from AD?
What about the error when sysprepping? I’ll be honest, making the assumption that all of these issues are related, you might just need to reimage the laptop and start over. If you cannot, then is system restore an option? Since it worked on Monday, if we can get it back to that point, you might be able to successfully “leave the domian” again not really leaving the domain since the DC should have no record of the computer, if I’m reading your post right and do a sysprep.
Which brings to mind another question I have, since you mentioned sysprepping, how are your systems imaged? Do you have any other reason to believe that you have a duplicate SID on the domain?
Does acme. If not, you might add the address in the Hosts file to trick the computer. Also, when you are trying to join, are you using the FQDN of the domain? Did anything change in the networking properties? I have seen that the cable companies will sometimes for a change for them, which then can mess with the authentication. What DNS is the local laptop using? Such as a old DNS server. Find an available IP on the subnet and pop it into your adaptor settings along with the subnet and default gateway and Dns settings you have for other machines on that subnet.
If that does not help. I should have been more clear. I think this is a point where you would really want to ask if you will end up investing more time fixing than you would in just rebuilding. That having been said, if you still want to try fixing it, details for SysPrep can be found in the Setuperr. I think there is a communication breakdown here. The presence or absence of a secondary DNS server internal or external on the SBS server should not make a difference in this case, though in an AD environment having at least 2 DCs is considered best practice.
You’ve already mentioned that the laptop resolves the domain to the appropriate IP. As far as not joining to the domain you can delete it out of Active Directory then retry to add it. I am going to guess there is software installed that is causing it not to see the domain. Good deal that you can ping. As others on the post has mentioned we really could use any error messages regarding the joining of the domain.
Thank You. Then attempt ping the domain controller from the laptop, both by IP and by Name. Sysprep has nothing to do with joining the domain, it simply removes all specific drivers from a machine so you can build a custom image that can be deployed to multiple computers.
I would like to thank everyone for your help – I very much appreciate the information everyone has provided. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Your daily dose of tech news, in brief. Step 1: Right-click the computer icon located on the bottom right corner of the task bar.
Then click Open Network and Sharing Center. Step 5: Provide correct IP address and subnet mask to this machine. When done click OK. Step 6: Open the command prompt and ping your domain. Step 7: Click Start icon and scroll to ‘computer’.
This registry setting allows the Active Directory domain controllers with the NT4Emulator setting to respond normally to the requesting client avoiding Windows NT 4. In the case of the join by FQDN, the joining client does not receive an adequate response to the LDAP pings it sends to the domain controllers at the beginning of the domain join process.
The helper domain controller responds but the joining client considers the response incomplete. After receiving the same replies from all domain controllers located using DNS, it falls back to performing a NetBIOS name query for the FQDN domain name to locate a domain controller, however this gets no response and the join operation fails. However it receives no adequate response and fails with the second error.
– Windows 7 ultimate unable to join domain free
We have a laptop that we cannot get joined to a domain The domain name I’ll use is acme. The laptop was a part of acme. He could visit Google, msn, etc.
What John could not get access to was the network drives. The red “X” appeared informing him that he’d been disconnected from those drives. No problem right? I tried to access the drives and sure enough, network path could not be found. I thought that I would try disconnecting and re-mapping the network drives – didn’t work either. At this point, I ran a ping test – looks good.
The laptop can talk to the SBS just fine. The laptop in question was not listed. Ok fine.. I’ll just manually create a record for it. Reboot the SBS server, reboot the laptop and try again.
After the reboot of both devices, still nothing. At this point, I was asked to remove the laptop from the acme. I can leave the domain, and it’s using a “WG” for a domain but I cannot join acme.
I was asked to try running sysprep to get rid of the SID and try again. Fatal error has occurred when running sysprep. I’m hitting a wall with this one. As everything we’ve tried has failed to work. What I do know Tuesday the laptop wasn’t used. Wednesday, we get a call informing us of this issue. The user told me that Time Warner Cable came out to install a new modem on Monday and he is the only one having these issues. What else could I try to resolve this issue?
When you try the domain join, what error do you receive? Has the old domain account for the computer been removed from AD? What about the error when sysprepping? I’ll be honest, making the assumption that all of these issues are related, you might just need to reimage the laptop and start over.
If you cannot, then is system restore an option? Since it worked on Monday, if we can get it back to that point, you might be able to successfully “leave the domian” again not really leaving the domain since the DC should have no record of the computer, if I’m reading your post right and do a sysprep.
Which brings to mind another question I have, since you mentioned sysprepping, how are your systems imaged? Do you have any other reason to believe that you have a duplicate SID on the domain? Does acme. If not, you might add the address in the Hosts file to trick the computer.
Also, when you are trying to join, are you using the FQDN of the domain? Did anything change in the networking properties? I have seen that the cable companies will sometimes for a change for them, which then can mess with the authentication.
What DNS is the local laptop using? Such as a old DNS server. Find an available IP on the subnet and pop it into your adaptor settings along with the subnet and default gateway and Dns settings you have for other machines on that subnet.
If that does not help. I should have been more clear. I think this is a point where you would really want to ask if you will end up investing more time fixing than you would in just rebuilding. That having been said, if you still want to try fixing it, details for SysPrep can be found in the Setuperr.
I think there is a communication breakdown here. The presence or absence of a secondary DNS server internal or external on the SBS server should not make a difference in this case, though in an AD environment having at least 2 DCs is considered best practice.
You’ve already mentioned that the laptop resolves the domain to the appropriate IP. As far as not joining to the domain you can delete it out of Active Directory then retry to add it. I am going to guess there is software installed that is causing it not to see the domain. Good deal that you can ping. As others on the post has mentioned we really could use any error messages regarding the joining of the domain. Thank You. Then attempt ping the domain controller from the laptop, both by IP and by Name.
Sysprep has nothing to do with joining the domain, it simply removes all specific drivers from a machine so you can build a custom image that can be deployed to multiple computers. I would like to thank everyone for your help – I very much appreciate the information everyone has provided. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.
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This option IS Online Events. Log in Join. Windows 7. Popular Topics in Windows 7 Openfire 4. View all topics. I am just going to combine these suggestions for a checklist you can use Un-join from the domain looks like you have already done that Remove object the computer from AD Manually enter the IP address of the PDC in the DNS settings of the network adapter Re-join the computer to the domain If this works great if not I agree that you should just re-image the machine and call it a day Spice 2 flag Report.
JJoyner This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Spice 3 flag Report. Spice 2 flag Report. Adam Gadoury. GorgeITTech This person is a verified professional. Spice 1 flag Report. OP R3b00t. JJoyner wrote: When you try the domain join, what error do you receive? Thanks for the replies everyone, much appreciate your support.
I am currently taking an image of it right now, before we do anything else to it and goof it up. JJoyner: I’ll have to get back to you on the specific error message but it basically tells me that the domain is not available — even though the laptop has network access. As for the sysprep error, Sysprep says, ” fatal error has occurred ” and that’s it. I can click OK and then sysprep will abort. This laptop is a Dell machine and I am quite surprised to learn that there is no restore partition on this device.
Typically there is a partition used for restoring My guess is someone erased the entire partition and rebuilt it once before. We do not have any solid evidence that there is a duplicate SID We’re grasping at this point. Cort wrote: Does acme. Yes acme. When I try to join the domain, I am using acme. Odd that this device is the only one having issues and everyone else is ok.
