Windows XP Pro cannot join 2000 domain

Hi,

After many hours of research I have finally fixed a problem that I was
experiencing trying to add Windows XP Pro SP2 computers to a Windows
2000 Domain and I wanted to post the information to a newsgroup to
hopefully save other people the tedious boredom I have just had!?

The error code we were experiencing whilst trying to add the computers
was "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation" each
time the computer attempted to join the domain. There were no local or
server events logged and I could see the domain was trying because it
created a disabled account for the computer in the Active Directory.

Windows 2000 PCs would add to the domain fine, and the PCs in question
would add to another 2000 domain, so I knew it had to be a domain
based problem.

As a matter of course I disabled all firewall features in XP and made
sure the domain controller was the default DNS server for the XP
machine, the network adapter for the server was multi-homed so I
removed this extra IP address, I then changed the DNS service to
listen on all IP addresses - I am certain this was the key to this
problem, I'm not sure why this affected the XP systems and not the
2000 ones, but I'm sure there's a logical explanation for that.

I hope this helps someone else out there.

All the best

Alastair

Thank you for the post.

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"Alastair Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> After many hours of research I have finally fixed a problem that I was
> experiencing trying to add Windows XP Pro SP2 computers to a Windows
> 2000 Domain and I wanted to post the information to a newsgroup to
> hopefully save other people the tedious boredom I have just had!?
>
> The error code we were experiencing whilst trying to add the computers
> was "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation" each
> time the computer attempted to join the domain. There were no local or
> server events logged and I could see the domain was trying because it
> created a disabled account for the computer in the Active Directory.
>
> Windows 2000 PCs would add to the domain fine, and the PCs in question
> would add to another 2000 domain, so I knew it had to be a domain
> based problem.
>
> As a matter of course I disabled all firewall features in XP and made
> sure the domain controller was the default DNS server for the XP
> machine, the network adapter for the server was multi-homed so I
> removed this extra IP address, I then changed the DNS service to
> listen on all IP addresses - I am certain this was the key to this
> problem, I'm not sure why this affected the XP systems and not the
> 2000 ones, but I'm sure there's a logical explanation for that.
>
> I hope this helps someone else out there.
>
> All the best
>
> Alastair

this probaly does not work because win xp cant work with a server under its
platform, or what ever u call it. it can work with 2000, this is what i
think