I can't get XP to join my domain?

Ok, I seem to be having trouble joining my Win2k3 domain.

Here's the info.

Domain Controller
OS: Win2k3
Server Name: win2k3-server
Domain Name: home-network.com
Static IP address: 192.168.0.10

On the XP computer where I goto control panel, system, computer name, then goto join a domain. I type in home-network.com and it doesn't work. I also tried win2k3-server.home-network.com and that also doesn't work.

Anyone have any ideas? I can ping the server fine from the XP machine.

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Starter

What error message do you get when you attempt to join the domain

mike63304

type in your domain without the .com

we've had the same problem before in my classroom networks.

qsub

mike63304 wrote:

type in your domain without the .com

we've had the same problem before in my classroom networks.

What the hell, that worked.
Thanks.

Hmm when I restarted and logged into the domain it sits at "applying your personal settings" for a very long time. Is it suppose to take this long? It's been like 10minites already.

garv221

spfdz wrote:

mike63304 wrote:

type in your domain without the .com

we've had the same problem before in my classroom networks.

What the hell, that worked.
Thanks.

I have never used .com before. I have used .local when trying to add computers to a network via VPN or an offsite reversed dns location.

Eye7

Make sure you statically assign your DNS to point to 192.168.0.10