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When trying to add a new Windows 7 machine to a network I get the following error message..."An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a DC in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain." I don't have any problems adding XP machines to the domain and not sure why I can't add a Windows 7 machine. I am able to get on the internet on the Windows 7 PC but can't add it to the domain. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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We finally got the computer to join the domain by doing the following: in the network adapter IP 4 properties, set the DNS ip address to that of the domain controller, NOT the DNS. Then went back to the computer properties to add the computer to the domain, it was added succesfully. After rebooting the machine and logging into the domain account, go back to the IP 4 properties and reset the DNS to automatically get the ip address.
I was able to resolve this problem on a machine with Windows 2011 SBS by setting up a Forward Lookup Zone.
Almost everything in this thread was done before without success and even uninstalling and re-installing the DNS server role didn't work.
You can blame the new setup Wizard for DNS, which doesn't ask to setup a Forward Lookup Zone anymore.
It did ask for this in earlier versions of Windows Server (like Server 2000).
Very annoying and a lot of waste of time if you ask me.
Worked well. Thanks for your great suggestion
When trying to add a new Windows 7 machine to a network I get the following error message..."An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a DC in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain." I don't have any problems adding XP machines to the domain and not sure why I can't add a Windows 7 machine. I am able to get on the internet on the Windows 7 PC but can't add it to the domain. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Had the same problem with a SBS2008 Server.. XP machines connected without issue.. WIN7 Failed with error listed..
Was able to resolve by changing "Interfaces" on DNS server. Check box for "Only the following IP address" was checked and the IP address was not checked. Checked IP address and rejoinded with out issue.
We finally solved the problem by "punting." We had tried so many suggestions that we had reached a point where we were unable to change certain settings displayed by ipconfig/all. So, we did a textbook fresh install on the system/boot partition. We assigned a fixed IP address for the server and reserved that address in our router; then we added the roles: [1] file server, [2] print server, [3] domain controller - using the Server Manager GUI interface. We did not add the role DHCP Server because we already had a DHCP server via our router. After adding the role DC, you are advised to run "dcpromo." Before we did that, we unchecked the IPv6 checkbox in the properties for the LAN connection because we really have no idea how to translate IPv4 numerics to IPv6 and we do not need IPv6 in our LAN. Making a server a domain controller automatically adds the DNS server role. After running dcpromo and re-booting the server, we set the preferred DNS server IP on the Win7Pro/WS to that of the DC/Server and added the Win7Pro workstation with no problem. The re-install of Windows Server 2008 was made easy due to the fact that our o/s lives on a separate spindle. We have a pair of Sata drives with a simple mirror where all our data and work-in-progress lives. Happy New Year! ----DCS 1/2/2012 13:03.
