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stead1984
Asked: 2009-12-03 01:25:02 +0800 CST

Can't join a domain from 1 PC (others work)

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I have a PC which is essential to the business as it runs our ironically named label system 'NiceLabel'. However since a colleague was too impatient to restart the machine when joining the PC to the domain it has decided that it doesn't want to join the domain... ever again!

I've renamed the PC and made it a member of a workgroup, when I try to join it to the domain it returns an error "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation" but it works for other PCs except this one.

Any ideas?

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7 Answers

  1. Check to see if that PC is already registered in AD. If the computer exists there, and the PC itself doesn't think it's on the domain you can't re-add it.

    Just delete it from AD and then re-add it from the PC itself.

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  2. A quick look round google throws up a bit on this

    Link

    Have you recently serviced pack the machine?

    Is the date and time matching to server? (this can cause strange things)

    Is there still a record of the machine on the server (AD?)

    Sure there are many more options but maybe take a look at some of those google results to see if you can eliminate a few

    hope that helps a little

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  3. Try using the fully qualified domain name. If the domain is named "ACMEDOMAIN" and the suffix is "local", try to join the domain with "ACMEDOMIAN.local".

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  4. Best Answer

    Firstly I ensured the PC was a member of a workgroup with a NEW hostname and rebooted.

    Then on the DC I deleted the Computer Object from AD, the DNS record and DHCP lease.

    I then joined the domain and rebooted and ensured the Computer Object was enabled and created the DNS record manually and it seemed to fix the problem.

    Haven't noticed any issues since then and the PC in question is the most heavily used machine on our network.

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  5. Temporarily set your primary DNS server to the ip address of the domain controller. This will assure its connecting properly. After you have joined the domain, you can change the dns. Although I would recommend leaving it as the dc ip.

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  6. The above link is more informative to your problem. Additionally I suggest you to Check the Domain whether it is able to accept dynamic changes to hostnames. check the time zone levels, This error mostly due to Netlogon problems,Just Restart the netlogon service

    Hope it helps you..

    Thanks Crew.

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  7. I had the same problem, issue resolved after Assigning Static IP to client PC

    Try to set Static IP address and check

    Hope this will solve your problem

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