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Joining to Domain Fails - Error 1355

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Topic: Joining to Domain Fails - Error 1355

Posted By: gordo
Subject: Joining to Domain Fails - Error 1355
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 12:43am

I've been using the User Profile Wizard for quite a while and it's always worked fine for me up to this point. Now, when i'm trying to join a machine to a domain, I'm getting:

Joining to Domain "<my domain>" ...Fails
Error 1355

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Gordo

Replies:

Posted By: Support
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 8:12pm

Hi Gordo,

The most likely cause is a name resolution issue - either DNS or WINS. Check the configuration of the existing DNS server, as discussed in the User Guide in the "Troubleshooting" chapter under 'Finding Domain Controller Fails/ �The RPC server is unavailable�'

One other option is to try specifying a DNS-style domain name instead of a NetBIOS name. So instead of 'mydomain' ise 'mydomain.domain.com'

Posted By: gordo
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2007 at 9:33pm

Thanks for the info. I do suspect that we have some DNS issues on our network. What's interesting is that I can successfully join the machine to the domain manually, it only fails when I try to join using the User Prfile Wizard.