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Error joining domain

owilsonjunior 21 Reputation points
2020-08-04T14:35:42.8+00:00

I came across a problem in the trust relationship on two machines, it had happened before, but other times I retired and put it back in the domain and it worked.

This time, I did the same procedure, but an error message is appearing after entering the login and password to join the domain.

"Error while attempting to join the domain - This action cannot be completed"

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.3K Reputation points MVP
    2020-08-04T14:44:48.357+00:00

    I'd check the domain controller and problem member both have the static ip address of DC listed for DNS and no others such as router or public DNS

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  2. Daisy Zhou 20,461 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-08-05T07:05:07.637+00:00

    Hello owilsonjunior-7837,

    Thank you for posting in our Q&A forum.

    We can checkas below:

    1.Check if the IP address of the DNS server is static IP address.

    2.Check if AD replication works fine by running repadmin /showrepl and repadmin /replsum.

    3.Check If a now-defunct DC still exists in Active Directory Sites and Services and/or DNS then clean-up including metadata clean-up may be required.

    If all above is OK, we can rejoin the machines to domain to see if it helps.

    Best Regards,
    Daisy Zhou

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