Joining Vista machine to OS X domain

We're having issues joining Vista client machines to our OS X Server domain.
When trying to join, the clients get a "specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" message, and this shows up in the SMB logs:
[2009/12/15 16:24:24, 0, pid=21821] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/opendirectory.c:opendirectoryuser_auth_and_sessionkey(580)
dsDoDirNodeAuthOnRecordType gave -14091 [eDSAuthMethodNotSupported]
[2009/12/15 16:24:24, 0, pid=21821] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/auth/authodsam.c:opendirectory_smb_pwd_checkntlmv1(387)
opendirectoryuser_auth_and_sessionkey gave -14091 [eDSAuthMethodNotSupported]
[2009/12/15 16:24:24, 0, pid=21821] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/libsmb/ntlmsspsign.c:ntlmssp_checkpacket(204)
NTLMSSP NTLM2 packet check failed due to invalid signature!
[2009/12/15 16:24:24, 0, pid=21821] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/rpcserver/srv_pipe_hnd.c:process_requestpdu(580)
processrequestpdu: failed to do auth processing.
[2009/12/15 16:24:24, 0, pid=21821] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/rpcserver/srv_pipe_hnd.c:process_requestpdu(581)
processrequestpdu: error was NTSTATUS_ACCESSDENIED.
I've already found info related to the authentication method on the Vista clients and changed the LAN Manager authentication setting to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated."
Is there anything else we could try?

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