Guest yaro137@googlemail.com Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 I had to disconnect a computer from the domain and then I added it back from AD users and computers by going to the Computers group where I want to add it back, right-clicking on the group and choosing New>Computer. Then I typed in the computer name. Now when I'm trying to remotely log on to this computer it tells me: "Windows cannot connect to the domain ..., or because your computer account was not found. Try later" What's the problem here? Is this because I'm trying to connect remotely to the computer? Thanks yaro
Guest Robert L. \(MS-MVP\) Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Re: Reconnecting a computer to the domain It depends. Can you ping the DC by name? -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com <yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:95b0613d-27be-45f0-a4af-f19f382e0f09@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... >I had to disconnect a computer from the domain and then I added it > back from AD users and computers by going to the Computers group where > I want to add it back, right-clicking on the group and choosing > New>Computer. > Then I typed in the computer name. Now when I'm trying to remotely log > on to this computer it tells me: > "Windows cannot connect to the domain ..., or because your computer > account was not found. Try later" > What's the problem here? Is this because I'm trying to connect > remotely to the computer? > Thanks > yaro
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Re: Reconnecting a computer to the domain Hey Yaro, As an alternative, can you try: 1. Remove the comp from AD 2. VPN to the server, and join the comp to the AD? -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage <yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:95b0613d-27be-45f0-a4af-f19f382e0f09@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... >I had to disconnect a computer from the domain and then I added it > back from AD users and computers by going to the Computers group where > I want to add it back, right-clicking on the group and choosing > New>Computer. > Then I typed in the computer name. Now when I'm trying to remotely log > on to this computer it tells me: > "Windows cannot connect to the domain ..., or because your computer > account was not found. Try later" > What's the problem here? Is this because I'm trying to connect > remotely to the computer? > Thanks > yaro
Guest yaro137@googlemail.com Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Re: Reconnecting a computer to the domain On Jan 25, 4:05 pm, "Jabez Gan [MVP]" <mingte...@blizNOSPAMhosting.com> wrote: > Hey Yaro, > > As an alternative, can you try: > 1. Remove the comp from AD > 2. VPN to the server, and join the comp to the AD? > > -- > Jabez Gan > Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage<yaro...@googlemail.com> wrote in message > Hi, I think that's what I did. Connected to the server via Remote Desktop. Removed the computer from AD and then Added a New Computer to AD by the computer name. Something must have gotten wrong because Server Management console doesn't even recognize the system that's installed on that computer. It looks like it is just an object in AD that's not representing any particular real PC. Strangerly however it is displayed on DHCP list. Or actually maybe it's not that strange as the address may be still leased to it although it's not connected. But then again I have no means that I know of to find out what IP it's got now by just knowing it's NetBIOS name. yaro
Guest yaro137@googlemail.com Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Re: Reconnecting a computer to the domain Ok, I couldn't do anything remotely as no one new the username and password to that computer so I got on site and as I was on my way to the server it hit me that XP cashes credentials. Solution: unplag the network cable and plug it in again. Login as admin and join it back to the domain. Sorted. yaro
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