RPC Server Unavailable When Trying to Join W2003 Server to W2003 Active Directory Domain

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Published on 2012-02-13T07:18:03Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 15:57 UTC
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I have an Active Directory Domain with a Windows 2003 Standard SP2 Server as the DC. When trying to join an additional Windows 2003 Standard SP2 server to the domain I get message "The following error occurred attempting to join the domain 'My Domain'. The RPC Server is unavailable.

  1. The computer is actually added to the Active Directory Computers. I can even right-click and Manage it.
  2. I can access file shares from the DC on the other server and vice versa.
  3. I can ping the DC from this server and ping the server from the DC using the computer name.
  4. The time on both server is the same more or less to the second.
  5. RPC service is running on both servers.
  6. I can join other computers to the domain and there are no other issues with the domain.
  7. Windows Firewall disabled on both computers.

NetSetup.LOG shows: NetpSetNetloginDomainCache: DSEnumerateDomainTrustsW failed 0x6ba I looked up this WIN32 Error Code: It is RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE.

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