My current client is setting up an entirely new set of machines for their project

running Windows Server 2008, and this includes a new Domain Controller and so we just

went through the adventure of figuring out how to have a Windows Server 2008 box join

a domain. If you’re having issues with this, the trick is two things:

  1. Change your network properties to be a Private network instead of a Public network.

  2. Go to Windows Firewall and turn it off.

Don’t worry, once you’re on the domain it will by policy re-enable the Firewall, so

this is just a temporary change.


Tim Rayburn is a consultant for Sogeti in the Dallas/Fort

Worth market.