Hello everyone,
Let me first explain the layout of this network. I have a windows SBS and four machines hooked up to a router. All machines can get online easily and all that great stuff. Afterwards I added each machine to my domain I created, everything went fine.
However, I took two computers off the domain and put them in a separate workgroup. Now however I wanted to add them back to the domain. But now when I try to do so it says it can't find the domain.
The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)
When I go onto the server I can ping the server's own IP fine, as well as ping the domain name. However from the host I can ping the IP, but not the domain.
At first all computers could see the shares on the server, however no computer can see the shared files on the server, even the ones that are still part of the domain.
The IP of the server is 192.168.1.6, so I decided to point the XP machine to the server, I set the DNS to 192.168.1.6, and still nothing happened.
I'm simply confused on what happened between last week and now, and why nothing is suddenly working. I have DHCP running on the router.
Just trying to throw as many random facts as I can out there, apologies.
Any idea why it can't find the domain? I'm pretty new to using server so I'm not really sure why it won't work. I assume the DNS server is working ok since I can resolve the the correct IP when I ping the domain from the server itself. Not really sure why the PC won't do the same.
Thanks for any help
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