Difficulty getting a client to join a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain

[Edward W. Ray]

When I try to authenticate to my domain from an XP pro client, I get a "bad
username or password " as an error and I am unable to join the domain. The
user name and password are fine on all domain machines and has the proper
membership privileges to authiticate clients into the domain.

I also have a Windows server 2003 cleint machine which is a member of the
domain but also cannot log onto the domain. It can only login as the
computer name shows no errors in event log and group policy objects
applying. Already have XP Pro and Windows 2003 clients in the domain. The
NTLM secrity option is the same on both DC and client machines.

This sounds like a registry key or some stupid config I forgot about.

Anybody have any ideas?

Edward W. Ray
SANS GCIA, GCIH

[Curtis Clay III [MSFT]]

Verify the time and time zone is proper for the clients. Also insure these
are not imaged machines. Duplicate SIDs will prevent you from joining and
authenticating to the domain.

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[Dmitry Korolyov]

I can suggest two things here: DNS misconfiguration or user account
restrictions. But according to your message, none of them apply - since GP
applies successfully (means DNS works fine) and the error message - "bad
username/password" - is not specific to account restriction.
Can you verify DNS connectivity, still?

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