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XP Client not adding to the 2008 AD domain

Installed AD before couple of months and tested adding some clients worked fine, later we added 3 DNS Zones and now not able to join clients to the domain.

The error was: "DNS server failure."
(error code 0x0000232A RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs

Darius Ghassem

Make sure you are pointing to the server for DNS only in the TCP\IP properties and make sure the server is only pointing to itself for DNS in it's TCP\IP settings. Run ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /registerdns, and dcdiag /fix on DC.

Go into DNS make sure you have a msdcs.domain.com if your msdcs folder is not grayed out under the domain.com zone.

Giuseppe Pizzuto

If not done yet, set the first DNS of the XP-Client to the DNS of the domain

jaruns

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msdcs.domain.com is not there in the DNS , it has - Server name * Global Logs * Forward Loo.. * Reverse ... * Conditional forwards.
Seems some how it got missed .

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jaruns

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MSDC folder is not there , inside the forward zone we have 3 domains under the AD domain there is no MSDC folder .. other two domains are not Microsoft they are Unix development environments hosts

Darius Ghassem

So, you don't have a msdcs folder at all under the domain.com zone? You should at least have a grayed out msdcs folder under thr forward lookup zone. If you don't then you don't have a functioing AD DNS zone for your AD.

jaruns

ASKER

MSDCS folder is not there even there is no such folder grayed out, is it possible to build it.

Darius Ghassem

No, you would need to delete your zone then recreate the zone. Make sure you are exactly typing the same name as your AD namespace in AD.

jaruns

ASKER

Thanks , hope i can leave the other two zones as it is , and way to export the existing entries after i delete and create the AD name space zone

Darius Ghassem

You can leave the other zones alone.

No, if you have static entries then be prepared to re-enter these back into the zone

jaruns

ASKER

I fixed it without deleting and recreation, enabled the dynamic updated with built the msdcs folders

Darius Ghassem

Good so is everything now working properly?

jaruns

ASKER

Yes it is working fine - Thanks for your support

Darius Ghassem

Go a head and close the question out then.

jaruns

ASKER

I got half way through