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Thread ID: 64153	2005-12-05 06:41:00	Windows 2003 Primary Domain Controller	dameek (8235)	Press F1

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410407	2005-12-07 09:35:00	One more thought about this . Could the reason that I can't ping external websites from my clients be because they go through a proxy server? This will depend on what type of proxy server you have . Is it a Proxy/Firewall? Your server DNS needs to have the server as primary DNS and your ISP DNS as secondary . Your Server static IP setting also have to have these setup as well . But from the posts have you joined the PC's to the domain or not? You are required to use the network wizard to join the domain with XP . You just can't change the from workgroup to domain . My experience anyway and I've done a few . But in saying that I haven't tried the other way for a long time as it just didn't work . Also do a nslookup on the DNS server to see if it responds correctly .	berryb (99)
410408	2005-12-09 04:57:00	In the end I gave up and demoted the PDC and repromoted it but then this caused a whole new issue of not even being able to log in so I decided to bite the bullet and format the hdd and start from scratch . I recreated AD, DNS, DHCP, the works and now everything is running perfectly . Thank you very much for help though as I learned a great deal and your comments definitley pointed me in more than the right direction to deal with any similar problems I may have in the future . Cheers	dameek (8235)
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