For the ping problem check the firewall settings. For the logon problem try
disjoin, restart, then rejoining the domain. (make sure you know the
password for local administrator first)


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Tom" wrote:
> I'm getting a error message on my XP clients:
> "The system cannot log you on now because the domain "example"
> is not available."
> However, my laptop is joined to the domain and directly connected to the
> same switch the server is connected to. I can login locally and ping the
> server
> and unc map to it, but if I restart the machine it still won't log in.
> I've tried several clients. The Windows Vista clients I have works fine.
> On the XP client I can ping the server, but the server can't the client.
> The Server is Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP2.
> The Vista client can ping and be pinged without problems.
> Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Tom