The following error occurred attempting to join the domain YourDomain.com: The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded. The following error occurred attempting to join the domain YourDomain.com: The Requested resource is in use.

I was working on a Windows 2008 R2 Server which had lost its trust relationship with the domain and was not allowing us to logon to it using Domain ID.

Here are the series of checks I performed and the events in chronological order:

• The server was reachable from outside using RDP but failing to authenticate a Domain ID.

• The server was able to resolve internal as well as external names from inside it.

• It was able to reach to the Domain and Domain Controller

• Removed it from domain (added in workgroup) and tried to rejoin it back and got following error even before it could ask for the credentials: “The following error occurred attempting to join the domain YourDomain.com: The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded.” 

•  Disabled and re-enabled the NIC but that did not resolve the issue so restarted the server.

•  After restarting the server the above error disappeared however just after submitting credentials after putting in the domain name to join it to, I encountered a different error this time: “The following error occurred attempting to join the domain YourDomain.com: The Requested resource is in use.” 

 

•  Deleted the Computer Account from Active Directory but even after that the same error kept appearing while attempting to rejoin the server to domain.

•  Restarted the server again but that too did not help.

         Resolution: Pre-Staged a computer object i.e. created a computer account in AD by the same name which I was trying to join to the domain and tried rejoining again and it worked.

Happy Troubleshooting… :)