Thursday, August 31, 2006

Symantec Firewall Client causes error joining Lenovo notebook x60s to W2K3 based domain

That was a wasting time action! Imagine: new x60s, working brilliant , all software setup properly. Trying to join MS W2K3 SBS based domain - failure!
You can joind the box to domain, you get invitation to restart - after restart the box doesn't see the domain.
Technical support of Lenovo has also no idea - and states, the box is OK, look for problem cause elsewhere.

Hours later: just disabled Symantec Firewall Client - and the problem solved.

I wonder, if test department of Lenovo does test this simple but very often used scenario... Seems to be - they miss that in test scenarios suite at all. Definitely.

So, if you are going to join Lenovo notebook with preinstalled software package to your domain - disable Symantec Firewall client and enjoy!

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