Authentication difficulties with one (just one) XP machine

I have one XP machine that has start having trouble authenticating with the
domain controller.

These are the two event log errors on the machine:

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: AutoEnrollment
Event Category: None
Event ID: 15
Date: 11/28/2007
Time: 11:47:07 AM
User: N/A
Computer: AXIO270
Description:
Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the
active directory (0x80072726). An invalid argument was supplied.
Enrollment will not be performed.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1054
Date: 11/28/2007
Time: 11:46:34 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: AXIO270
Description:
Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network.
(An invalid argument was supplied. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
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I already tried the KB article suggesting to disable Media Sense, it did no
good. I also tried setting the Nic to specifically 100 Full-Dup. That did
no good either. So I put everything back the way it was.

It seems to have a perfect connection at the network level. It can both ping
and resolve the names of the two DCs.

The TCP/IP settings are via DHCP and they are correct and use the DCs as the
DNS Servers. I also tried static settings, but did no good.

I tried once to remove, then rejoin it to the domain. It removed ok, but
would not rejoin claiming that a DC could not be found. I left it for a few
days,..then started it up today, tried to join,..it joined perfectly on the
first try. Then about an hour later the whole problem came back again.

All other machines on the LAN (around 100) have no problems at all like
this.

Any ideas that I have not tried?

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------

Hi Philip,
I think u connect to the cash not to the real DC,
so,
Try to use the local administrator account to disconnect from the domain and
switch to a workgroup configuration. Then restarte twice and then logged in
again as the local administrator and re-connected to the domain using the
wizerd. All was well from this point on.

--
M. Arida


"Phillip Windell" wrote:

> I have one XP machine that has start having trouble authenticating with the
> domain controller.
>
> These are the two event log errors on the machine:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: AutoEnrollment
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 15
> Date: 11/28/2007
> Time: 11:47:07 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: AXIO270
> Description:
> Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the
> active directory (0x80072726). An invalid argument was supplied.
> Enrollment will not be performed.
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1054
> Date: 11/28/2007
> Time: 11:46:34 AM
> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> Computer: AXIO270
> Description:
> Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network.
> (An invalid argument was supplied. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> I already tried the KB article suggesting to disable Media Sense, it did no
> good. I also tried setting the Nic to specifically 100 Full-Dup. That did
> no good either. So I put everything back the way it was.
>
> It seems to have a perfect connection at the network level. It can both ping
> and resolve the names of the two DCs.
>
> The TCP/IP settings are via DHCP and they are correct and use the DCs as the
> DNS Servers. I also tried static settings, but did no good.
>
> I tried once to remove, then rejoin it to the domain. It removed ok, but
> would not rejoin claiming that a DC could not be found. I left it for a few
> days,..then started it up today, tried to join,..it joined perfectly on the
> first try. Then about an hour later the whole problem came back again.
>
> All other machines on the LAN (around 100) have no problems at all like
> this.
>
> Any ideas that I have not tried?
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
> www.wandtv.com
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

It was already removed from the Domain and then rejoined several days later.
Everything worked fine for about 30 mintues to an hour. Then the problem
came back again while the machine was still running.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------


"arida" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news8FC5E8A-B3B6-4B91-9311-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Philip,
> I think u connect to the cash not to the real DC,
> so,
> Try to use the local administrator account to disconnect from the domain
> and
> switch to a workgroup configuration. Then restarte twice and then logged
> in
> again as the local administrator and re-connected to the domain using the
> wizerd. All was well from this point on.
>
> --
> M. Arida
>
>
> "Phillip Windell" wrote:
>
>> I have one XP machine that has start having trouble authenticating with
>> the
>> domain controller.
>>
>> These are the two event log errors on the machine:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Event Type: Error
>> Event Source: AutoEnrollment
>> Event Category: None
>> Event ID: 15
>> Date: 11/28/2007
>> Time: 11:47:07 AM
>> User: N/A
>> Computer: AXIO270
>> Description:
>> Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the
>> active directory (0x80072726). An invalid argument was supplied.
>> Enrollment will not be performed.
>>
>> Event Type: Error
>> Event Source: Userenv
>> Event Category: None
>> Event ID: 1054
>> Date: 11/28/2007
>> Time: 11:46:34 AM
>> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
>> Computer: AXIO270
>> Description:
>> Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
>> network.
>> (An invalid argument was supplied. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I already tried the KB article suggesting to disable Media Sense, it did
>> no
>> good. I also tried setting the Nic to specifically 100 Full-Dup. That
>> did
>> no good either. So I put everything back the way it was.
>>
>> It seems to have a perfect connection at the network level. It can both
>> ping
>> and resolve the names of the two DCs.
>>
>> The TCP/IP settings are via DHCP and they are correct and use the DCs as
>> the
>> DNS Servers. I also tried static settings, but did no good.
>>
>> I tried once to remove, then rejoin it to the domain. It removed ok, but
>> would not rejoin claiming that a DC could not be found. I left it for a
>> few
>> days,..then started it up today, tried to join,..it joined perfectly on
>> the
>> first try. Then about an hour later the whole problem came back again.
>>
>> All other machines on the LAN (around 100) have no problems at all like
>> this.
>>
>> Any ideas that I have not tried?
>>
>> --
>> Phillip Windell
>> www.wandtv.com
>>
>> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
>> Microsoft,
>> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>