Windows error 0x0000232B, 9003

Can't join machines to domain

I've installed Windows Server 2016 Datacenter on a physical machine called LOKI. It is allocated the static IP 192.168.1.77 by the router. It is also set manually in TCP/IPv4 on the NIC. The gateway is set to 192.168.1.1 (the router). The Primary DNS Server is set to 127.0.0.1. The Secondary [...] read more

An Active directory domain controller could not be contacted

After creating an Active Directory domain controller I tried to add client computers to the domain but I kept hitting a snag. > The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location > (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD > DC) [...] read more

How do I get Windows Domain Controller and Ubuntu dnsmasq to play nicely?

I've inherited "ownership" of a network which has a Windows 2003 Server running as a Domain Controller and file server (no IIS or DNS running). We also use an Ubuntu server running dnsmasq as an internal Name Server. This setup doesn't seem to have been a problem until now - [...] read more

Got an error trying to join a domain

I have a Windows 7 machine, in which I've installed the Microsoft Virtual PC, so that I can have Windows XP on the Win7 machine. (I need it for some legacy development.) I've renamted the VPC and then rebooted. Next I tried to join the Active Directory domain (Windows 2003 [...] read more

What should the SRV record _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.domainname.com point to in Azure AD?

I administer Office 365 for our company widgetsRus.com, and I am trying to join my desktop computer to the domain and log in using my Office 365 email address. I bought the domain and the Office 365 subscription from GoDaddy, and the name servers are currently at he.net. I administer [...] read more

Join Samba 4 AD domain, missing DNS entries?

I've just set up a Samba 4 Active Directory domain using the Samba supplied guide. So far so good, and I managed to join my fileserver to this domain by following the Setup a Samba AD Member Server guide. However, I seem to be unable to make my Windows 8.1 [...] read more

How to reference a Domain Controller out of the Local Network?

We have multiple servers scattered over different hosting providers. For learning, experimenting and, ultimately, production purposes, I set one of them as a Domain Controller. That went well, most of our services are now authenticating via AD, which helps us a lot. What I want to do now is to [...] read more

My dns name does not exist. When trying to add pc's to domain

I have a server which is running dns,terminal,ad,etc and I am trying to get desktop computer to join the domain. My server names is server.home.aplus.com (dont ask me why its so long) The domain is home.aplus.com. My server ip is 192.169.52.183 and when trying to get a pc on the [...] read more

How to add a DC to the LMHosts file so I can join a DC that's in a different subnet.

Solution: No ports needed to be open since sonicwall VPN's allow all traffic by default. I just pointed the client machine's primary DNS to the DC and it worked. Thanks guys, great site. -Will How can I create a static entry, so when the computer tries to connect to our [...] read more

Can't Add Server to a Domain Controller

I'm running 2 Server 2008 machines, one's my primary DNS/DC and the other will be a DHCP/WDS server (this is for a home environment), but when I try to add my DHCP/WDS server to the Domain, it times out. I'm running this network on a dlink wired router. Error when [...] read more

Odd Behavior of DNS forwarding with SRV record resolution

I'm running into a weird problem while setting up a new SAMBA AD DC on my network. I've got the DC itself up and running and checked on the server that I am able to resolve the DNS name of the server, along with the Kerberos and ldap SRV records. [...] read more

AD DC for domain could not be contacted

We are using samba4 on Debian 8 as a AD DC and isc-dhcp on another Debian 8 machine as a DHCP router. The problem is that if I set dhcp ip on a windows client I can't join the domain. If I add the AD DC ip on the windows [...] read more

An Active Directory Domain Controller for This Domain Could Not be Contacted with windows 7 laptop

I have server running Zentyal. And I have a problem with joining my domain. The problem exists with only my laptop. I've tried some other PC's and they successfully join the domain. All the machines that I used run windows 7. I tried to ping the domain controller from my [...] read more

Windows XP cannot join (samba) domain

I've a setup with Samba 3.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 running as Primary Domain Controller for the network. [Almost] everything works fine, except for a single Windows XP computer which cannot join the domain. All the other computers, either XP or 7, can correctly join and authenticate, change password and whatever [...] read more

Adding 2008 Server to 2008 Domain

I'm trying to create a lab for testing before I deploy solutions, I'm no experienced IT Administrator, and therefore I come here for help. I'm running 2 Virtual Servers on the same machine on a local connection between those two. They'are able to ping each other. Their names is TSDATA1 [...] read more

An Active Directory Domain Controller for This Domain Could Not be Contacted

Something very odd is happening. We have a Windows Server 2003 computer that is NOT part of our domain. It is simply just serving up files via file shares (don't ask me why they used Win 2k3 for a simple fileserver). Anyways I'm attempting to join it to our domain [...] read more

Exchagne Web Services - The Autodiscover service couldn't be located

I have a Exchange 2013 server (Windows Server 2013). Single server with all roles Domain controller, AD, Exchange server etc. Now I am writing basic Exchange web services sample code. Below is the code I am trying. If run this code on Exchange server itself, test email gets sent. But [...] read more

How to create a connection between two virtual networks?

I am trying to join a VM to a to a managed domain On Azure. I have checked on a Microsoft page but my issue it can be different. I can do a ping to 123test.com because it is a website and I am receiving a public IP address 69.x.x.x [...] read more

Exchange Webservice AutoDiscover service couldnt be located

I have this code ExchangeService serviceInstance; serviceInstance = new ExchangeService(ExchangeVersion.Exchange2007_SP1); serviceInstance.Credentials = new WebCredentials("Jacob.Alley", "*****", "emaildomain"); serviceInstance.TraceEnabled = true; serviceInstance.AutodiscoverUrl("Jacob.Alley@emaildomain.com"); and I get the "AutoDiscover service couldnt be located" error thrown. Here is the trace ` Trying to call Autodiscover for Jacob.Alley@emaildomain.com on https://emaildomain.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml. </Trace> <Trace Tag="AutodiscoverRequestHttpHeaders" Tid="8" Time="2016-11-16 18:41:58Z" [...] read more

Active Directory don't create DNS records

In my Server with Windows Server 2019 Datacenter I have added Active Directory but I can't connect PCs in the local network to authenticate on the Server. When I try to add the PC to the Domain I get the error: Error 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR) The query has been executed for [...] read more

Issues with connecting to our domain

Info (for display purposes, none of this information is actually the same): Domain name: THE-DOMAIN.local NetBIOS Name: THE-DOMAIN Local IP: 192.168.0.2 VPN IP: 10.0.0.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the-domain.local is never found on our VPN or local devices - I have the windows DNS server installed, and my DNS server is pointing towards [...] read more

Adding a machine to a domain, but having issues with a DNS server

All our machines are connected to a VPN if they aren't on our local network, we've had no issues over the domain before. So I get a laptop and try to connect it to the domain, do the same thing I do on all other machines (for laptops we set [...] read more

Windows 7 Enterprise domain login error

So I have this school computer. And I got help from a friend who managed to make the program sethc.exe to become an command promt that you could make pop-up by using sticky keys and from there I created a local admin account off the school domain network. My school [...] read more

Samba3 and Windows 8 RTM

So I have just got a new PC that has come pre-installed with Windows 8 (shudder...). The guy its for likes to live on the edge and wants to keep it, rather than just go back to Win7. The network it is on runs Samba3 with a current mix of [...] read more

SAMBA AD DC visible from external DNS

I have configured fully functional SAMBA AD DC server. During AD provisioning process i set up SAMBA_INTERNAL as DNS back end. I couldn't use "NONE DNS", it is not supported. I want to use external(from SAMBA) DNS in my local network which is also visible to outside of a local [...] read more

Active Directory don't create DNS records

In my Server with Windows Server 2019 Datacenter I have added Active Directory but I can't connect PCs in the local network to authenticate on the Server. When I try to add the PC to the Domain I get the error: Error 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR) The query has been executed for [...] read more

Clients could not join to domain controller

When I`m trying join a client to the domain controller the client raises the following error: > The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location > (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD > DC) for domain "amf.local": > > The [...] read more

Windows 7 Cannot Join Domain

I'm having trouble connecting a Windows 7 computer to my Domain. I'm running a private network inside VMWare Workstation and have successfully connected a WinXP and Win10 machine to the network without any issues. However, this Windows 7 machine is giving me grief, I'm running a Windows 2012 R2 Server [...] read more

Can't connect computer to domain

I can not connect a computer to Server 2012 R2. the error message I receive is Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been recorded in the file C:\WINDOWS\debug\dcdiag.txt. The following [...] read more

An Active Directory Domain Controller to the domain .... could not be contacted

I got this error: Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been recorded in the file C:\WINDOWS\debug\dcdiag.txt. The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource [...] read more

DCPROMO Error: DNS name does not exist."(error code 0x0000232B RCODE NAME ERROR

Our schools has two domain controllers running Server 2008. One DC experienced issues forcing us to demote the system. We are now trying to run DCPROMO and experience the below error. > The domain name CAMPUS might be a NetBIOS domain name. If this is the case, > verify that [...] read more

DNS setup over RRAS, Can't join Domain Controller

I currently have 1 domain controller in one of our premises. I have another server 2008 r2 which I have installed RRAS on and have setup 2 direct dials on either end and they have connected fine. Server1 - IP 192.168.1.2 Server2 - IP 192.168.0.200 On Server1 and Server2 I [...] read more

Virtual Machine Active Directory Domain Controller

I have a VM with Win2k3 x64 Enterprise Edition installed. I have DNS Server and AD(DC) Server roles added to this VM. I would like to know if I could join my laptop (which is the host for the VM) to the domain I created on the VM. When I [...] read more

Can't connect to domain controller

I setup a dns server/domain controller on a windows server 2003 box on my local network, giving it a fixed ip address of 192.168.2.9. I called the domain "toth.domain". I then changed the preferred dns server on my Windows 7 box to 192.168.2.9 and tried to join the domain, however [...] read more

Domain Controller / DNS Issue - Creating Network of Virtual Machines for Development

First off I am a developer, and I a moving into the realm of distributed computing. I need to create a development environment which consists of: 1. Many HPC Server 2008 nodes 2. Domain Controller. ... all as virtual machines. I followed this guide to creating a domain controller: d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/11/09/build-a-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller/ [...] read more