Joining a Domain

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You can't have resources mapped from/to the same resource with different
credentials. Try from a command prompt;
net use * /delete
then join

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"JeffB" wrote:
| I've been doing this successfully for months and today I keep getting an
error
| message. Setting up a new workstation, I get to the dialog to join it to a
| domain. I type in the domain name, a dialog asks for an administrator name
and
| password - then instead of getting the "Welcome to the XXX domain" I see:
|
| "The following error occurred attempting to join the domain XXX.
| Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user,
using more
| than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections
to the
| server or shared resource and try again."
|
| This is a WinXP workstation joining a Win2000 hosted domain. I've tried
| different workstation names, different workstation user account names,
tried
| adding and deleting workstation names from the domain directory, and
logging
| myself out of all other servers and workstations. No change in the error
| response. Can someone decipher what this message is trying to tell me?
|
| Thanks!
| JeffB
|