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No problems. Another question as well, are these PC's running from a DHCP server, or are the IP addresses manually configured?

yeah they all get an IP address via dhcp from the server

What did nslookup show?

dont go back to thst school till thursday so ill try it then and let you know

thanks for your help

no prob's

Hi ok its seems I lied when i said i got this laptop on the domain because I didnt. It gets an address automatically from the dhcp server but I cant join the domain....it just fails saying the domain controller could not be contacted. However putting its IP address in the browser allows you to access all its shares and printers but only by its ip address not computer name. when doing an nslookup i get @cant find server name for address 10.69.27.2 (server IP)

Thanks

Hey Phil,

That's the correct IP address for this server?

If it is not the correct IP address, then do an ipconfig /flushdns from the command prompt.

Otherwise, try using an internet DNS server, try nslookup with www.pchelpforum.com IP: 64.118.92.21?

If you can not resolve any DNS servers, then check the firewall on the local PC.

If you can resolve other DNS servers, but not your own, then make sure there are no firewalls between the PC and the server. You could always plug that laptop into the same connection as an existing PC. It's possible that this problem could be with the server itself, has it been restarted? Other PC's may be working by using cached DNS, but I believe flusing the DNS could also be used on the other PC's to determine that.

One way around the error when it comes to joining this to the domain, is by adding the IP address of the DNS server in manually? It will still pickup a DHCP IP address and subnet.