First of all, I want to thank you all in advance for your patience and any assistance. I am not a corporate IT manager, nor do I work in the IT field anymore. I used to do software development years back and I'm looking to get back into the IT field so I'm trying to teach myself admin and keep myself up to date on newer tech and practices. I plan on buying some books here in the near future, so I'm sure once I get the books, my answer will be forthcoming, but I was hoping to at least get things set up for now. I have some history in IPv4, and networking as well as system adminstration from the client side and very old exp from older server systems, never with domains.
My current set up is a test bench set up I'm working with to gain experience and understanding in my own personal home. I have multiple computers and have re-set-up an old pc and installed Windows Server 2012 Standard (GUI not core). Following online tutorials I got a clean installation, i have set up DHCP & DNS successfully and my other systems are currently utilizing the server for IP addressing and DNS resolution. I also installed the AD DS service and set up the domain and promoted the server to Domain Controller. I'm still new to the terms, but from what I understand, this is a new forest and currently, the only computer in the domain is my server i just set up. In case needed, here are the system specs:
Server Specs:
- ABIT AW9D-MAX Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 O/C @ 3GHZ
- 4GB Memory
- 2x256GB in raid 0 for primary OS hard drive
- 4x500GB in raid 5 for data drive (1.5TB usable)
- 1x3TB external for backup
- Windows Server 2012 Standard in GUI mode
- IPv4 static 192.168.0.99
- Computer Name: Alderan
- Domain: NewRepublic.local
I have enabled remote desktop and I'm able to ping "Alderan" with success from my main computer, and even remote desktop in to access from my main PC with no problems. I can also map network drives that I have shared from various computers on the network.
The problem is this, I am now trying to join my primary computer to the domain. The computer is an "in use" and not fresh installed PC with the following
- Windows 8 Pro
- Computer Name: Coruscant
- Workgroup: Workgroup
- Firewall: Comodo (no logs found showing denied access)
- IP: DHCP set by Alderan (Reservation set address 192.168.0.100)
- DNS: 192.168.0.99 (Assigned via DHCP from Alderan)
At first when I go through the join domain procedure, I leave the name the same, and update domain to point to NEWREPUBLIC, and initially when I select join, it asks me for the username / password and I enter the System Administrator username/password from the Domain server. It then goes to hourglass (or the blue circle, you know what i mean" for a few minutes and then pops up the error:
The following error occured attempting to join the domain "NewRepublic":
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
When I pull up the log files from my windows 8 PC, I find this error in the System Logs:
The machine CORUSCANT attempted to join the domain NewRepublic but failed. The error code was 1355.
I know I'm probably over my head at this point, but I would love to figure out this problem. I'm sure it's a obvious issue (well, for someone with domain experince.. lol). I've searched online for the last 2 days, and I find a lot of issues where it's an un-attended installation, but obviously this is not my situation. This isn't the end of the world if I have to wait to buy my books, but I would greatly appreciate someone either helping out here or pointing me in the right direction. Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Roger