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Windows cannot connect to the domain An officemate approach me because of the message appearing when he try to login to his workstation. " Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because domain the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your network administrator for assistance.". For this error message, i've done the following steps: 1. Login to the Windows XP workstation as a local administrator. If you cannot logon as local administrator, try to disconnect the network cable and login to the computer by using a domain administrator user that was used to logon on the PC before. This will be made possible because of the cached logon credentials feature that remembers the last 10 successful logons.  2. Go to Control Panel, then click on System icon, then go to Computer Name tab. You can also do this by right-clicking My Computer,...

 LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol What is LDAP ? LDAP , Lightweight Directory Access Protocol , is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server. Every email program has a personal address book, but how do you look up an address for someone who's never sent you email? How can an organization keep one centralized up-to-date phone book that everybody has access to? That question led software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Lotus , and Netscape to support a standard called LDAP. "LDAP-aware" client programs can ask LDAP servers to look up entries in a wide variety of ways. LDAP servers index all the data in their entries, and "filters" may be used to select just the person or group you want, and return just the information you want. For example, here's an LDAP search translated into plain English: "Search for all people located in Chicago whose name contains "Fred" that have an emai...