I am running Server 2003 R2 SP2 on 2 domain controllers. w2k3server is a Domain Controller, DHCP and DNS server. Fed-TS3 is just a backup domain controller.
Whenever I try to add a new computer to the domain I get a message that says "The following error occurred attempting to join the domain FEDERATED. The network path was not found." Users are also getting "The network path was not found" when they try to change their password.
When I try to join the FEDERATED domain it asks for username and password. I've tried both FEDERATED\administrator and administrator with the correct password. I've also tried federated.local. I've tried joining the domain on several different Windows XP machines (SP2 and SP3).
There are no errors in the event viewer on either server and there is no firewall running on either server. I have joined new computers to the domain in the past without any issues. It has been a few months since I've added a new computer, but I am not sure what has changed.
From my workstation (I am a member of the administrators group) I can ping Fed-TS3 and w2k3server by IP and computer name. I can also ping from server to server using IP and computer name. However, when I try and browse using network neighborhood, I cannot connect to Fed-TS3. I get the message: "\\Fed-ts3 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found." But when I browse the network from Fed-TS3 I can access w2k3server.
I am not a DNS expert and I'm assuming it has something to do with DNS, but I'm not sure where to start to resolve this.
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