How to add windows vista to a domain

In a more sophisticated domain, you probably other firewall settings, however the principle is the same. One sign that it was indeed a firewall problem was when I ran the command: ping server. I got a reply from not from plain server, but from server. This was an indication that not only were the ICMP ping ports open, but also that DNS was correctly configured and resolved my request for server to the fully qualified server.

Even by opening ports, , , 88 and 53 I still could not join the domain. Since I am not a professor of firewalls and port numbers, I took the ruthless approach and just temporarily turned the Windows Firewall Off on the server side. If I turned the Firewall O n at the server, the Vista machine just would not join the domain.

When I turned the firewall O f f the Vista machines joined the main without any trouble. For me, this discovery finally sealed the message The following error occurred attempting to join the domain as a firewall problem. See SolarWinds Firewall Browser ».

Creating a computer account in Active Directory While there is no harm in creating a computer account in the name of the machine that you want to join to the domain, this is neither essential, nor is it the root cause of this error. The only problem that creating a computer solves, is if the account that tries to join the Vista machine to the domain is NOT a Domain Admin.

Even in this situation, Vista provides a dialog box so that you can enter the name of Domain Admin and thus overcome permission problems. In my troubleshooting experiments the key to persuading a Vista machine to join an Active Directory domain was turning off the firewall at the Windows Server end.

In my opinion The following error occurred attempting to join the domain is most likely to be a firewall problem.

Improved Windows Explorer. Finding Tools Menu and Explorer Settings. How to Create Virtual Folders. Desktop Tips and Tricks. Vista Documents and Special Folders. Sidebar and Gadgets. Check Performance with ipMonitor. To complete these procedures, you must be a member of the Domain Administrators group, or otherwise be delegated permissions to modify the membership of the group for the GPO. On a computer that has the Active Directory management tools installed, click the Start charm, then click the Active Directory Users and Computers tile.

In the navigation pane, expand Active Directory Users and Computers , expand YourDomainName , and then the container in which you created the membership group. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. I look forward to your reply. Joson Zhou. Microsoft Online Community Support. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question.

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