[OT] Window 7 connecting to a Win 2003 Domain

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HELP !!!.



Hi All, just started an new job and trying but failing to get my laptop to
connect to the domain under Windows 7.  I did eventually succeed under XP
yesterday after I entered details of "<domain>.local" into
both the hosts
file and the LM hosts file as I was getting an error message saying that it
couldn't find a DNS entry for the domain controller.



DNS is not handled by the windows server but by the internet router. Since
adding the entries to the host files I can now ping successfully.



I tried exactly the same under Win7 but it hasn't worked. I CAN ping OK and
also get further down the setup route but it fails at the final step
complaining about DNS again.



One more thing that was weird yesterday.... manually trying to join the
domain failed but the wizard succeeded. No luck with either method in
Windows 7



Any network guru got a clue as to what I am doing wrong ?



Thanks



Keith



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