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How to join a PC to a Domaine

I have a windows 2003 domain  controller and 15 windows xp pro workstations. I am having difficulty joining my PC to the domaine. With WIndows XP Pro, in order to join the domain, do you have to indetify the NetBios Name of the domain, or the DOmaine Name or the Fully Qualified domain name of the DC.  The only thing that is working for me is entering the netbios name. Maybe I dont understand the difference, can someone explain ?
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Domains do mot use Netbios names, only computers.  How did you name your Domain?  domain.com or domain.local?
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The name of my domaine is anishnabe-lacsimon.ca, the netbiosname that we were given is anishnabe-ls. When I try to register the PC to the domaine I can only do it when I enter anishnave-ls as the domaine name ?


Do you have DNS configured on the server with the  DNSservers IP address set on the client machines?

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Also, make sure you point your DSN entry on the workstations in the tcp/ip properties to your internal DNS server first before joining your pc to the domain.  There should only be 1 entry in the DNS entry and that should be your internal one.

DNS and Active Directory rely heavily on each other.  They must both be healthy for your network to work properly.

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It should have also warned you if you didn't have DNS installed when you were installing AD and asked if you would like to setup DNS there.

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