I have a few laptops joined as well with no problems. Don't shelve Vista
yet...post some of your basic DNS settings of your domain (whatever you are
comfortable with) and we can help point you in the right direction. Also,
post info on communcation security policies you have in place...may be
related to that as well. Also, do you use DHCP?

Jeff

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
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> I've joined many a Vista computer to a domain without problems. I would
> look at event logs on client and server, then evaluate how you're pushing
> those settings out to clients.
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> "mattbartley" <mattbartley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Multitude of problems joining the Enterprise edition to our AD network.
>> Problem seems to resolve around DNS. Installed Vista every possible way
>> (upgrade, clean, etc.) and always come to the same problem--cannot
>> communicate with the DNS server. The last attempt was an upgrade and was
>> joined to our domain for about two minutes then dropped out due to comm
>> error
>> with DNS. Anybody have the same problems? Anybody have a solution or
>> should
>> I just shelve Vista until SP1? Reloaded XP now and rejoined the domain
>> in 3
>> seconds...spent 4 days trying to get Vista to join!
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