First, thanks for in advance for your help!
Now on to the issue. I have a SBS 2003 domain ( I am a developer not a network admin, but manage to get by). I have a 25 workstation environment (currently all Windows XP SP2).
My client has bought all new workstations - all of which are Windows 7 Ultimate. 15 of the machines are 32-bit and the other 10 are 64 bit.
I configured one of the 32 bit machines then ghosted that image onto 5 other machines. I can add the machines to the domain no problem and they can access all network resources (printers, internet connections, network shares, etc). I can see all 6 of the machines from the DC (Server Management ->Computers). I cannot right click and "manage" any of these 6 Windows 7 computers - I get and error message "Computer \\xxxxx cannot be managed. The network path was not found. If I try to ping any of these 6 computers by name, it displays it's ip address but times out. If I try to ping any of the 6 by ip address it times out. I also can not RDP into any of these computers. (as an aside we use the Corporate Edition of Symantec, when I go to push the client software out to any of the 6 computers, I only see one of them).
Now, I also deployed 1 of the 64 bit machines and it works great!!I can ping it, RDP it, manage it, etc.
I made no changes to the preloaded Windows 7 Ultimate configuration as sent to us by Dell.
I have turned the firewall off on the 6 32-bit machines and applied all updates. I have tried removing the machines from the domain and re-adding them with no luck.
Thanks again!
Brian
Now on to the issue. I have a SBS 2003 domain ( I am a developer not a network admin, but manage to get by). I have a 25 workstation environment (currently all Windows XP SP2).
My client has bought all new workstations - all of which are Windows 7 Ultimate. 15 of the machines are 32-bit and the other 10 are 64 bit.
I configured one of the 32 bit machines then ghosted that image onto 5 other machines. I can add the machines to the domain no problem and they can access all network resources (printers, internet connections, network shares, etc). I can see all 6 of the machines from the DC (Server Management ->Computers). I cannot right click and "manage" any of these 6 Windows 7 computers - I get and error message "Computer \\xxxxx cannot be managed. The network path was not found. If I try to ping any of these 6 computers by name, it displays it's ip address but times out. If I try to ping any of the 6 by ip address it times out. I also can not RDP into any of these computers. (as an aside we use the Corporate Edition of Symantec, when I go to push the client software out to any of the 6 computers, I only see one of them).
Now, I also deployed 1 of the 64 bit machines and it works great!!I can ping it, RDP it, manage it, etc.
I made no changes to the preloaded Windows 7 Ultimate configuration as sent to us by Dell.
I have turned the firewall off on the 6 32-bit machines and applied all updates. I have tried removing the machines from the domain and re-adding them with no luck.
Thanks again!
Brian