Hello,
All of the firewalls are disabled on the clients. I can disjoin and rejoin
the clients until I'm blue in the face. The problem still persists. The one
thing I've noticed is that not all logins are logged in the event viewer of
the server. Does something need to be turned on?
Thanks.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> 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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> "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
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