XP PRO CANNOT FIND DOMAIN

[dblack63]

I have a small multi-platform network with about 160 workstations. It is a windows 2000 network. We recently installed 22 XP Pro workstations. After about a month, the XP PROs started doing strange things. Some (3 or 4) are not able to browse the network. You can type the address of a machine in the address bar and get access to it's resources, however, you cannot access a server. Also, I now have a machine that I tried disjoined from the network with the intention of rejoining the domain to see if that fixed the browsing issue. Instead, when I try to rejoin the domain, I get the message stating that the domain is not available. However, I have no problems with any of the Windows 2000 or 98 workstations.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[ashpp]

Hi,

Is IPCONFIG showing the correct DNS server?
Is NSLOOKUP finding that server?

Ash.

 

[dblack63]

Thanks for your response.

IPCONFIG shows the DNS server that I manually entered in TCP/IP settings. The network uses DHCP, but I entered them manually when the domain was not located to see if it would solve the problem. As for NSLOOKUP, it does not find the server...lists it as "unknown"

 

[bcastner]

If you disable DHCP then you probably disabled netbios
name registration. Put the machine back the way it was
before where the addresses were obtained automatically.

Next, I suspect a browser way is going on here. With
your non-XP clients the browsing service on the client
concedes to the master browser on your Domain Server.

XP Pro can have problems unless you tell it to let someone
else do the master browsing activity.

As administrator, go to control panel, Administrative Tools, Services, Computer Browser, and disable and stop
this service on the client.

This will force XP to defer to the NT server as the Master
Browser.

Best,
Bill Castner