I purchased 10 new GX270s with the intention of joining them to my domain over VPN via a Cisco 1711 router. The tunnel is always active in the router.
None of the 270s will join the domain. I receive one of two errors after it asks for a username and password of a person authorized to join the domain.
"The semaphore timeout period has expired"
"The domain CBHS is currently unavailable"
We currently have a Dell Latitude D600 at this location and it joins the domain without a hitch over the same connection.
Two of the 270s are using wireless cards and the other 8 are using the built in Intel gigabit ethernet cards. Whether I use the NIC or the Wireless card they still timeout and will not join.
Things I have tried to reolve the issue.
Obtained latest drivers for the NIC and Chipset.
Disabled the onboard NIC in the BIOS and used a 3rd party NIC.
Updated the BIOS to revision A04
Compared all services running on the D600 and matched them with running services on the 270s.
Confirmed all TCP/IP settings match between the D600 and the 270s.
Has anyone else experienced odd behavior with the GX270 and any network related issues? I experienced some odd behavior with some GX270s and Powerquest Drive Image about 6 months ago. The NIC would intermitantly not initialize with the Drive Image Boot Disks.
ANY information would be GREATLY appreciated.
