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I am attempting to join a domain managed by a Samba PDC from several Windows machines, both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. They all give a similar error. The Windows 2000 error gives me a URL that redirects to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/dns/tshoot/dns_tshoot2A.asp The XP error is attached. Any idea how I can fix this problem? If necessary, I can modify the DNS zone (on a BIND nameserver), but I've never had to do so in the past at similar installations and I don't know what to add to BIND. This is Samba 3.0.2a. There is only one Samba server....

...ght resolved : when joining a domain, sometimes the workstation says it cannot join, or the domain does not exist, or something like that, because there is a DNS resolution probleme. I read the Micro$oft documentation listed in the error message (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/dns/tshoot/dns_tshoot2A.asp) I solved the problem, the first time, by activating netbios over TCP/IP on each workstation. All workstation joined the domain. Good. But some days after, noone can connect with these workstations : the domain does not exist ! (and yes, I checked if smbd service was running...) The PDC (na...