Setting Domain on PCs.

Right click my computer > properties > computer name tab > click the "change" button at the bottom. click the radio button at the bottom saying "domain" and type the domain name/ip address in there. you will need to reboot to changes to take effect and you should then be presented with the domain login screen.

As for your email, are you using microsoft exchange?
 
Are you using Small Business Server or Exchange Server? If you're using SBS the LAST thing you want to do is attempt to join the domain from "My Computer".
 
SirKenin said:
Are you using Small Business Server or Exchange Server? If you're using SBS the LAST thing you want to do is attempt to join the domain from "My Computer".
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Why is that? I used to setup up loads of server/clients this way and it worked fine.
 
Then you would know that the proper way to set it up, for several reasons, is adding a computer and users on the server, then going to the client computer and typing "//SERVERNAME/ConnectComputer/" in a browser.
 
Firstly he asked how to setup a pc on a domain, I was therefore assuming the user was already created in active directory.

Secondly your method does exactly the same thing as my way does. do a google a search on "joining a domain" and see how many results return your method.

I love when people try and over complicate things :rolleyes:
 
It's not overcomplicating anything, and no, your way does not do the job on SBS. In fact, if you do it "your way" it will not function properly, which leads me to believe that either you don't know what you're talking about or at best your knowledge of networking and servers is limited. Either way, I hope to hell you didn't charge them for setting it up.

To make it function the way it's supposed to, in fact, "your way" would require a significant amount of extra work... for reasons I have no interest in getting into as I have no interest in teaching you how to do your job.
 
SirKenin said:
It's not overcomplicating anything, and no, your way does not do the job on SBS. In fact, if you do it "your way" it will not function properly, which leads me to believe that either you don't know what you're talking about or at best your knowledge of networking and servers is limited. Either way, I hope to hell you didn't charge them for setting it up.

To make it function the way it's supposed to, in fact, "your way" would require a significant amount of extra work... for reasons I have no interest in getting into as I have no interest in teaching you how to do your job.
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This will be my last post on the subject. Seems to me like your one of these idiots who thinks that there is only way one of doing things. Have you ever tried joining it via my computer? and yes I have set several SBS installations up like this, AND charged for them, and guess what it worked fine and the customer was happy and had no problems.

So carry on being a pompus prick thinking you know everything when infact you know very little ;)
 
I see.. So having SBS 2003 sitting here beside me, and running in my server room... means I don't know what I'm doing? Hmm. Interesting.

If you join the domain from my computer, several key components of Small Business Server will not be installed on the client, mandating a significant amount of extra work, which you obviously did not do and thus your customer did not get good value for their money.

It has nothing to do with being pompous. I'm not pompous. I just know that you have no idea what you're doing and you're misleading people and not giving your customers proper service/functionality as a result.
 
In all honesty the OP has not given enough information to properly answer the question. There are a million ways to accomplish the same goals, and if you bind the client one way versus another it is not like its writing all these configurations to different resources, they all write the same resource. I don't see a problem like that. Then again, it all depends on how you set up DNS.
 
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