I noticed I'm having a similar issue to this guy:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/br/w8itprogeneral/thread/408e7970-18bb-4eef-8177-a4cac46d7051
Basically what's happening is when I connect to our domain, I have to use a different DNS server than everyone else in our organization. If I use the DNS server we use for all the other computers, it won't let me join the domain (claiming it can't find the
Active Directory Domain Controller). It says it's a private network instead of a domain network. If I use the DNS server that's behind our firewall (which, to my knowledge...isn't even a DNS server), it'll let me join the domain like normal. The network adapter
will say I'm part of "____.local". However I won't be able to access other PCs on our network if I leave that as the primary DNS server (I have to switch the primary DNS BACK to the original DNS server to connect to things beyond the firewall).
I know this is kind of confusing but I'm not sure what's going on here. In short: procedure used to connect to domain normally does not work in Windows 8 and I have to use a different DNS server to join the domain (then switch back to the original DNS server
if I want to connect to computers outside the firewall). Doesn't happen with any of our non-Windows 8-based machines (we have a Server 2012 running in our network as a sandbox server that has the same problem as the Windows 8 PC).
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/br/w8itprogeneral/thread/408e7970-18bb-4eef-8177-a4cac46d7051
Basically what's happening is when I connect to our domain, I have to use a different DNS server than everyone else in our organization. If I use the DNS server we use for all the other computers, it won't let me join the domain (claiming it can't find the
Active Directory Domain Controller). It says it's a private network instead of a domain network. If I use the DNS server that's behind our firewall (which, to my knowledge...isn't even a DNS server), it'll let me join the domain like normal. The network adapter
will say I'm part of "____.local". However I won't be able to access other PCs on our network if I leave that as the primary DNS server (I have to switch the primary DNS BACK to the original DNS server to connect to things beyond the firewall).
I know this is kind of confusing but I'm not sure what's going on here. In short: procedure used to connect to domain normally does not work in Windows 8 and I have to use a different DNS server to join the domain (then switch back to the original DNS server
if I want to connect to computers outside the firewall). Doesn't happen with any of our non-Windows 8-based machines (we have a Server 2012 running in our network as a sandbox server that has the same problem as the Windows 8 PC).
View the full article