Workstation is Win2K, i have just joined the domain before the experimenting started (i figured there could be some problem in authentication, i've used the winnt: provder succesfully using supplied credentials in the past, but was not too confident on LDAP...)
My computer shows nicely in AD/users and computers.
I am logged on to the laptop as MVDW/administrator (domain account) i am logged on using the same account on the dc when i test the scripts there.

I performed a normal clean install of Win2K on the server and the laptop. A couple of weeks after the install i used the "wizard" to install AD.
I even checked the DNS and that contains an LDAP service entry... it even says full control permission for the administrator account explicitly. But as i said, under the same account etc.. it all runs fine on the dc itsself but not on my laptop.

(just did 70-210 and 70-215 this week, but there were no questions on this one .. )

is there any other prereq you know of ?