Fix: An Active Directory Domain Controller Could Not be Contacted | cannot connect to domain

Fix: An Active Directory Domain Controller for the Domain Could Not be Contacted.

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[Router]

I spent hours searching the web for a solution for this, Thank you Kelvin.

[Strider_NZL]

Kelvin ... spent over an hour trying to work out what was wrong, a simple entry to the DNS in the workstation and fixed .. thanks for your help dude. I was relieved to finally get it working, It was doing my head in! always the simple things can cause so much headache!

[Smillii]

I am studying computer science at college and my assignment was to mass add users. We've tried ADDS 2 or 3 times at this point, never had a problem with it till now. I checked if my IP range and DNS were right, if IP itself was right, domain names, if machines could ping each other etc. Everything seems right, yet nothing worked. Couple of restarts and sanity checks later it works. I have legitimately no idea, what was wrong. Thanks for different point of view though!

[vannakr]

Thank you KJohnson. You're de BEST!! It has taken me almost 1.4 hours to find out why I couldn't connect to my local domain server. I had to use the local domain's IP address as a "PREFERRED DNS SERVER" and the Alternate DNS Server IP as the router's IP. Thank you so very much, sir!

[anantmahindraka]

Hi,

Domain to client and client to domain ping successfully but still showing same error pls help.

[cedricsindjui]

thank you for the video but is there any configuration that can be done at a router level to redirect any query to the DC to avoid having fixed settings on Wifi Ethernet of client machines ? I faced the same issue and I use your recommendation to fix it unfortunately if I change back on the client the ethernet config to automatic settings (IP assigned by DHCP), I will not have access to the local drives on my LAN.

[adetunjiakintonde]

This tutorial just resolved the issue I've been having. Thanks and more blessings.

[UduakUdo-rstt]

Kelvin, you have just saved me a lot of time to complete a project of adding a client to the AD DC. Thank you for the awesome job you are doing.

[chimachima]

You really saved my ass, was trying everything possible to resolve this issue for over 3 hours

[alvind]

Kelvin thanks a lot, I was suffering to connect my clients. But I have one problem, on my Cisco router I’ve configured DNS as 8.8.8.8, so do I’ve to go back to that router to change the DNS to my server IP? Because I will not be going from one computer to another to add that ip address . Hope you understand my point please.

[Vesparin]

Thank Im sitting alone in a computer lab and got this problem and it worked by setting the preffered DNS to the domain contollers ip. First it did not work and i got frustrated but then remembered this is windows and restarted the server and it worked.

[kevinlegobrickmaster]

thanks for the helpful tutorial, mine was a little bit different but without this I would've been still looking for my issues, gave you a sub and a like

[liewwengsim]

Insightful and helpful video on troubleshooting for unsuccessful Joined Domain Account. Clear cut and comprehensive. Nice

[priyamkumarsaha]

Thank you for helping. Very much appreciated. :)

[charorom]

Thank you very much, after watching so many Videos for several days, I finally found the answer. I am your new subscriber!!

[chikensaregood]

WOW! I just need to let you know that you are a god send! It took me a lot of troubleshooting trying to figure out the right ip because it was not accepting any but I would not have been able to done it without you. Seeing that connection icon made me so happy!!!!

[dinman]

Thank you for this video. I was building a 2nd DC and I have been fighting for the last 3-4 days with this exact problem. And all it was is I had the DNS address set as the IP address of my 2nd DC and not the first DC. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

[_QQproject]

Hi Kev, great tutorial! It's helped me get a step closer to getting this configuration working, however, I've still been running into a wall for the past 6 hours!
Once I add the Windows VM to the domain (as a member) and receive a confirmation when trying to Manage the newly added computer (via Active Directory Users and Computers). I keep getting "Computer cannot be connected. Verify that the network path is correct, the computer is available on the network.... To enable the appropriate rules Windows Firewall rules on the remote computer, open the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in and enable the following inbound rules: COM+ Network Access (DCOM-In)". I've tried everything but still now luck!

[yuvateja]

Bro ur a life saver..😍😍 after 2days straggle..🙏🏻

[yourfavtechguyvest]

Thanks this helped, was trying to add a windows server as a member to domain controller