Here is the background
1. Laptop is part of our domain at one point
2. Laptop removed from domain and used standalone for a few months
3. Hard drive replaced
4. Clean install of XP Pro
5. Laptop joined to domain and all is well
6. Install Apps and nearly ready to deploy to user
7. Out of the blue domain accounts get stuck at "Applying computer settings" when logging on
8. Further investigation indicates communication problems with Active Directory (AD) (i.e. when try to set security on a folder - cannot locate domain accounts)
9. Remove laptop from domain
10. Try to rejoin to domain
11. Get error "The following error occured attempting to join the domain "<domain>": A remote procedure call (RPC) protocol error occured"
My first thought was that this must be a DNS issue, but I have investigated this and I don't think DNS is the problem. The system is pointed to AD for DNS and can ping the domain and DC's using hostnames.
Other interesting tidbits:
* I am able to join other systems to the domain without an problem
* I tried an repair install of XP - that did not fix the issue
* I have deleted all computer accounts from AD users and computers
* I have cleaned up all DNS records for laptop (i.e. deleting records for old computer name)
* I have cleaned up WINS records for this laptop
* I have tried running dcdiag on this laptop but it also reports RPC errors
* When running dcdiag from others machines - no problems reported
* Using Windows Server 2003 for DHCP and DNS
* Running a 2003 Domain
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
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