Help me add a computer to my domain?

[jimbob200521]

recently, i set up a domain in my house, and when i try to add one of my computers to the domain, i get an error i have never seen before:

"The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "madox":

No mapping between account names and security IDs was done."

Does anybody know what this means?

If i cant get this computer added to the domain, its not the end of my world, but it would be nice.

 

[jimbob200521]

nobody knows what this means?

 

[JackMDS]

What are you running as a Server?

You need a real Server OS (like Win 2003) to use a Domain.

:sun:

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: jimbob200521
recently, i set up a domain in my house, and when i try to add one of my computers to the domain, i get an error i have never seen before:

"The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "madox":

No mapping between account names and security IDs was done."

Does anybody know what this means?

If i cant get this computer added to the domain, its not the end of my world, but it would be nice.

Iniitial suggestion is to confirm your AD DNS is set correctly.

 

[jimbob200521]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
What are you running as a Server?

You need a real Server OS (like Win 2003) to use a Domain.

:sun:

im running win server 2000, ive set up networks and domains before, but ive never had this error message before

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: jimbob200521
recently, i set up a domain in my house, and when i try to add one of my computers to the domain, i get an error i have never seen before:

"The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "madox":

No mapping between account names and security IDs was done."

Does anybody know what this means?

If i cant get this computer added to the domain, its not the end of my world, but it would be nice.

Iniitial suggestion is to confirm your AD DNS is set correctly.

everything looks like its set correctly in dns

 

[dclive]

So your DHCP server is handing out the 2003 server's IP address, and the server itself refers to itself as the primary DNS?

 

[ktwebb]

What is/are the event(s) generated.

 

[jimbob200521]

Originally posted by: dclive
So your DHCP server is handing out the 2003 server's IP address, and the server itself refers to itself as the primary DNS?

yes, but the server is a windows 2000 server

Originally posted by: ktwebb
What is/are the event(s) generated.

i right-click on my computer, go to properties, then the computer name, the change button, then i click to domain, type in my domain name, and click ok. it then asks me to put in the username and password of someone who has the rights to do what im tryin to do. i put in my administrator username and password, and then it sits for a min. thats when it comes back and tells me what op says

 

[ktwebb]

yes, I know how to add a computer account to a domain. The event viewer is what I was talking about.

Right click on My computer and click manage. Once it opens look at the systems events to see what is generated. You can then go to eventid.net if you like or post here. There is plenty of information there without an account. Typically there will be some links and what not that require an account with the website, which I have.

The event viewer should be the first place to look when your having problems on a windows box. Not every circumstance perhaps but most.

 

[jimbob200521]

whoops, my bad, sorry.

when i try to add this computer, and then check the event viewer, it shows no new events

 

[dclive]

In both the client and the server?

 

[jimbob200521]

nothing shows up in either event viewer when i try to add that computer. 🙁

 

[ktwebb]

Change the name of the workstation. You might also go ahead and create an account for that machine in AD before you actually try to add it from the workstation. To be thorough I'd probably rename the workstation in the workgroup and reboot first. Then, after creating the computer account in AD try to join the machine again. There is something funky with that account name in Active Directory. That's my guess and it is mainly a guess. Most of the stuff you find on this error is Exchange related but just looking at some knowledge base articles it looks like it could be a corruption issue as well. Nothing specific. Just deductive reasoning.