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Joining Windows Vista to a Win2003 Domain Controller

There are a lot of people out there having issues with this:

I did a number of things to get this working... some specific to Vista, and others not.  I read several forum posts about tweaking WINS and NetBios settings on your NIC.  I didn't have to do any of that.  I'm not sure if all of these are required, here are my settings:

• Turn off TCP/IPv6
  
  
  
  
• Unblock Network Discovery in Windows Firewall
  
  
  
  
• In TCP/IPv4 properties, give yourself a static IP and make sure your DNS server IP address in your TCP/IP settings are set to the IP of your domain controller
  
  
  
  
• Join the domain using the computer name of your DC and a DC Administrator account
  
    
  
  

Print | posted on Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:00 AM | Filed Under [ microsoft ]