Error when joining domain: revision level unknown

[achilleus]

Hi all...Thanks in advance for any help you can offer...I'm stumped on this one...

I have a remote user...He was at a client site...The tech at the client site changed the domain membership of his machine (this was all done so he could use a printer)...He has returned to the office and I am unable to put his machine back on our domain (or even add it to a workgroup)...I get the following error:

Error in unjoing blahblah domain. Revision level unknown.

What does "revision level unknown" mean?...Any ideas why I cat get the machine back onto our own domain?...Ive never seen this error before..

Thanks! AJ
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[achilleus]

Perhaps I should just try a W2k System Repair using the CD...Not sure what else to do... AJ
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[tlcscousin]

After looking on google and on M$ I have found a few that have had the same error but no one with a fix for it.
It had a fix that you have tried, and that is back to workgroup and then into domain is what M$ recommends.
Have you checked to see if when you try to go back to workgroup does it ask for a password of a user that had permission to perform the task?If so maybe the password was changed, and yours is no longer recognized as having the authority to do the change.

 

[achilleus]

Thanks for the reply futuretech204...When I try to roll it back to a workgroup, I dont get asked for a password...I even tried changing the password for the local admin...No joy...

I just wish I understood what the error means...I have no idea what revision it is talking about...

Just for grins I reinstalled SP2...No difference... AJ
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[GlenJohnson]

The tech at the client site changed the domain membership of his machine Have you contacted the tech and asked him what he did to do this. Maybe he changed a registry setting or something that's not normally done. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?."
Pliny the Elder, Caius Plinius Secundus(c.23-79 A.D.); Roman writer.

 

[achilleus]

I'm afraid that if I speak with him I might say something mean. <g>

I actually just started doing a reinstall of the machine.

Tried everything else I could think of. AJ
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[Titleist]

Have you reset the machine account in AD for the remote user? Trying to rejoin the domain with the same computer name will result in a SID mismatch. This could be the cause of the problem...