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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / December 2007Can not get Mac x10.5 booting up from vista to join 2003 domain. Please help.
First, let me say thanks to anyone that can help me. Here's what going on. Mac has bootcamp with Vista installed on it. Both server and client have latest updates. When trying to join domain you get " the RPC server is unavailable" most of the time, if I see this it's due to dns not set right at the client end. I can and have join new pcs, notebooks to this domain to confirm the problem stays on the MAC. I added static IP to everything and added host A rec. in DNS an can ping every device. the Machine name is added to the server in AD once you try join the domain. Then you get the same errors one or more, all dealing with RPC server. Thanks, Again Bruce > First, let me say thanks to anyone that can help me. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > you try join the domain. Then you get the same errors one or more, all > dealing with RPC server. Hi Bruce! The fact that this is a Mac is a moot point. You're still talking about vanilla Windows. RPC errors like this are indicative of DNS problems. They can either be caused by improperly configured DNS servers or you may need to do something like add the correct DNS search suffix to your Vista computer's settings. Can you confirm that those machines you've already joined to AD are also Vista machines? While I don't believe this is the answer to your problem, the thread at this link does include some helpful troubleshooting information. <http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=493252> You might also try posting your question in a Vista or AD specific newsgroup such as <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general> or <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory>. Hope this helps!  Signaturebill William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> On Dec 10, 9:48 pm, William Smith <meckli...@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net> wrote: > bj1...@yahoo.com wrote: > > First, let me say thanks to anyone that can help me. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks, Bill the other PCs are all XP. I only have one vaild Vista Disk. So I went all out and thought I try it on the MAC. At this point I am just trying to confirm this can be done?? wish I had a vaild copy of XP. just to cofirm its not the OS some how. Eveything else appears ok. Bill, have you heard of anyone else doing this. Thanks, Bruce > Thanks, Bill > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bill, have you heard of anyone else doing this. Hi Bruce! That's encouraging. I'd hate to think something with hardware comes into play here. That would be very strange. I think your best best is to determine if you can join Vista to your domain from any machine, not just the Mac. If you have a second hard drive that you can put into one of your non-Mac Intel boxes and image that with Vista then I'd expect you'd see the same message. Or you could probably install one of your XP licenses on your Mac just for testing purposes. Either way, you need to eliminate one of the two variables--the Mac or Vista. Hope this helps! Signaturebill William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> On Dec 11, 11:19 pm, William Smith <meckli...@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net> wrote: > bj1...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Thanks, Bill [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> > Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> Yes, I agree. Thanks, for your input. Bruce |
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