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hoflix · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Los Angeles

Hi everyone.
This is my first post, I've been struggling with this for 2 weeks.

I'm setting up a win2003 server at home, with a domain. Just for learning, it's not business critical or anything like that. (so I can re-install DNS, AD or anything anytime, if needed)

I have problems joining a workstation to the domain.
The DC is also running DNS, DHCP and WINS (just because it can Smile

Workstation has a fresh XP pro.

When trying to join, I get to the "enter an account with permissions to join the domain" (which means it finds the DC ?!) but after entering a domain admin account , I get an error " The following error occured while trying to join domain 'hoflix.local' . Arithmetic result exceeded 32bits"

When entering a bad user/name password, it says so. I've tried with and with out computer account in AD (even without a computer accoutn in the AD, with enough credentials, it should join just fine.)

So far, it looks like it's a DSN issue

Here's 2 ipconfigs:

1) workstation:

C:\>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : exa
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hoflix.local

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hoflix.local
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC
(3C905B-TX)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-10-4B-CA-D2-02
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.220
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.10
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.205
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.205
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.205
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 10, 2006 11:06:37 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 17, 2006 11:06:37 AM

C:\>

From the server:

C:\>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : berver
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : hoflix.local
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hoflix.local

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-87-8A-27-24
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.205
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.10
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 127.0.0.1

C:\>

As you can see, right now, for dns, the server's is pointed to its loopback. I've tried pointing the server to its own IP for DNS also. Same thing.

Now here's what makes me think it's a DNS thing:

WORKSTATION nslookup: ==================
C:\>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.10.205: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.10.205

SERVER nslookup ====================
C:\>nslookup
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

> berver
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: berver.hoflix.local
Address: 192.168.10.205

> yahoo.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: yahoo.com
Addresses: 216.109.112.135, 66.94.234.13

>

I will try any suggestions.

PS: same thing on 2 workstations. I did try MS update.

Leathal · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 37

Your Primary DNS on the DC should never be 127.0.0.1, it should be instead pointing to itself. 192.168.10.205 (?)

Leathal

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