Cnat join to Domain 1

[netadmin06]

Hello, I am trying to join many windows xp systems to my windows 2000 domain but i get the error "domain cannot be found message"....

the server has dns and since my domain name is the same as our website address i had to create a host in DNS pointing to the ip address of my isps ip for our website because they are hosting it.........is this why my systems cannot find mydomainname.com??? I need to join those systems to the network.....Thanks

 

[GlenJohnson]

What version of XP, home or pro?

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[paella33]

What are DNS pointing to on the clients and on the server? They have to be the DNS of de domain, not the ISP.

 

[netadmin06]

the machines are xp pro sp2 with all updates...the clients point to the server for dns and the server points to itself. Like I said I had a host record created on the dns server where

http://www.mydomain.com

points to the ip addtess of the server where my website is being hosted....before i created this record if someone form the internal network opened up a browser and pointed it to

http://www.mydomain.com

the would get an error "the page cannot be displayed message"....this is because my network domain name is the same as my website domain name..i do not know if this has anything to do with my issue of not being able to join computers to the domain....

 

[lhuegele]

Your conflict is indeed caused by the fact that you have your internal domain name the same as your externally hosted website.

When you say you created a host record on the DNS server, did you mean your internal name server? Also, did you create a host record for

http://WWW??

Remove your forward lookup zone for "mydomain.com", wait 15 minutes for everything to propagate, then try adding your machines. Your users won't be able to access your external website while you do this.

To keep things simple, you should always name your internal domain something OTHER than what is available on the internet.

Good luck,

 

[netadmin06]

Thanks! that worked lhuegele!!

 

[lhuegele]

Glad to hear it!