logon failure: The target account name is incorrect

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Daniel Wilson

At a client site, one Windows XP (Pro SP2) workstation that is a member of
the domain began getting this error today when attempting to access a share
on a domain controller. Finding that it didn't appear to be properly
participating in the domain, I removed it (moved it to the WORKGROUP
workgroup), then tried to add it back to the domain.

Now when after it asks for the password to join the domain, it repeats the
error message.

Reading that this occurred when more than one computer had the same name, I
changed the name. Same thing.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Daniel Wilson
Senior Software Solutions Developer
Embtrak Development Team
http://www.Embtrak.com
DVBrown Company
 
Daniel,

Can you give us the exact error and how you came to the conclusion that it
was not participating in the domain. This immediately sounds like a DNS
problem, but we'll need more information.
 
As mentioned...appears to be a DNS issue.

Note: facetious, but true; when it comes to AD..."No matter the problem,...
DNS is the solution"

1.) Ipconfig/all find out if the client computer has a valid IP address, one
which will allow it to participate in the Domain subnet/DNS zone.

2.) Ping both directions, client to server and server to client, this is to
determine whether connectivity is possible.

3.) Is your system using DHCP, static or dynamic address allocation.

4.) review event logs for contributing errors.
 
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