Question : Domain Controller Not Found - Unable to Join Domain

I've got 6 Windows 2000 Pro workstations joined to an Active Directory domain running on a Windows 2000 Server.  Everything runs fine except we can't join any Win XP Pro machines to our domain.  I always get an error message saying:

"A domain controller for the domain could not be contacted

The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DOMAIN NAME

Common causes of this error include the following:

- The DNS SRV record is not registered in DNS."

Any ideas would be appreciated.  As well as any reason why this only happens with Windows XP Pro.

Answer : Domain Controller Not Found - Unable to Join Domain

I was also having the same problem and was getting to my wits end.  Tried everything mentioned above but still couldn't get them to logon.
Solution:
On my Win2k server, I edited the TCP/IP properties Advanced - WINS tab to enable Netbios over TCP/IP.  Tried again and was able to join the XP machines to the domain.  Once joined, I can disable Netbios over TCP/IP and there's no problem logging in.

I don't doubt this has something to do with an incorrectly set up AD, but I don't know what it is.  For instance, even though I''ve setup DNS to update dynamically, I never see any of the workstations listed in the forward lookup zones.   Should they be there?

Hope this helps some of you get out of the woods.
Ingo
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