Hey everyone! I'm facing an issue where I'm unable to remotely log into a specific computer from any user account. This computer has a fresh Windows 11 installation after the previous Windows 10 installation started causing a lot of BSODs. Before the reinstall, it was disconnected from the domain, but I've kept the same computer name for convenience, since it's located remotely from others.
Everything works perfectly with all other computers, so I'm at a loss. When I check the logs for the problematic computer, I see this error: The LDAP server returned an error with the ID indicating it might be trying to reference an old installation object.
I've already tried disjoining the computer from the domain and then rejoining, created a new user, cleared saved credentials in Credential Manager, and removed certain entries from the AppData folder, but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions on what could be going wrong?
3 Answers
Have you tried connecting to that computer using its IP address instead of its name? Sometimes DNS issues can mess with name resolution.
You might want to delete the computer from Active Directory, then unjoin it from the domain, rename it, and join it again. That often clears up strange issues like this.
Could it be that someone moved a domain controller out of the domain controllers OU? Just a thought, but that could potentially cause remote login issues.
Nope, we actually have two domain controllers, and they are still in the correct OU.
That's a good point! I haven't tried that yet; I’ll give it a shot right now.