RE: [OT] Window 7 connecting to a Win 2003 Domain

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Keith... may I can help a little...

You say DNS is handled by the internet router, - I'm extremely sceptical
about this, - Active Directory depends absolutely on certain DNS features:
SRV records and Dynamic updates, primarily come to mind. (Although
technically, dynamic updates aren't actually mandatory for AD, SRV records
absolutely are).

I've never heard of a DNS service in a router that supports these features.
- Of course it might just be that I've led a sheltered life for the last
few
years, and things do of course change, but nonetheless, until confronted
with incontrovertible proof, I just don't believe that the router is
providing AD DNS services to support the domain. I'll bet you  fiver right
here & now that DNS is installed & running on at least one of the
domain
controllers in the domain... - you really need to set THAT DNS service as
your primary DNS server in the Windows 7 client before you'll get any
success trying to join the domain... - Your Windows 7 client will be
querying its configured DNS for SRV records to locate various service
connection points within the active directory; you need more than just name
resolution of the DC name to its IP Address, and you need to be able to
much
more than just ping it...

Go back to whomever is managing the AD, and get them to tell you the
address
of an AD-compliant DNS server....

Paul G.




-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Keith Doxey
Sent: 23 February 2010 16:16
To: UKHA Discussion (UKHA Discussion)
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Window 7 connecting to a Win 2003 Domain

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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