XP Pro to WinNT

[Libay]

Hi! I have a laptop with win xp pro. I am trying to connect it to the company's win nt 4 server. The rest of the desktop connected to the lan are win98se. We have dhcp server. Win xp laptop has the following config:
- disabled winxp icf
- no 3rd party firewall
- netbios setting from the dhcp server is selected
- computer browser services started automatically
XP laptop behavior:
- can ping all PCs in the lan
- cannot browse workgroup
- cannot see network drives
Win98 desktops:
- cannot ping xp

Please help. Thank you.

 

[markdmac]

Your Win9X boxes are able to just connect to a domain, but the XP box will require an admin to create a machine acount and add the machine to the domain.

Assuming you have the admin ID:

Right click My Computer
Click Properties
Click Computername
Click Change
Select Domain
Click OK

When prompted type the admin name and password for your domain.

You will be forced to reboot and should then be able to login to the domain.

 

[Libay]

I did the procedure but i got an error:
A domain controller for the domain could not be contacted.
Ensure that the domain name is typed correctly.

 

[markdmac]

OK, try this when you enter the admin ID

use the context DOMAINNAME\ADMINISTRATOR
replacing DOMAINNAME with your domain name of course.

 

[markdmac]

You should also verify that you have the domain name right of course.

If DNS is messed up on your system you may need to use the FQDN such as domain.local or domain.com whatever you or your administrator set you up with.

 

[Libay]

i was able to join a domain. But whenever i map a network drive, it asked for a username and password... i put domain\username & my password, but it keeps on saying network path could not be found, but i made sure that what i typed were correct. thanks for being patient with this thread.

 

[markdmac]

OK, so is it right to say we have one problem down and that you are now joined to the domain?

please give the following a try and report back the results.

Click Start, Run
Type cmd <enter>
Type ipconfig /all <enter>


What I am willing to bet is that either your DNS, NetBIOS or Wins Settings are messed up.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark