Update: Machine accounts invalid

Kevin Currie x7currie at lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Thu May 21 12:28:06 GMT 1998


> What *exactly* do you mean by rebuilding the machine ?
> If you mean re-install or any re-load of the registry
> LSA secrets hive then the old machine password will
> be lost and you will have to re-join the domain, after
> resetting the password on the PDC.

	When I say rebuild, I'm talking about a format of the HDD... which
in a lab enviorment tends to happen quite often, especially since MS uses
this damn registry thing.  It is far easier to "clone" an image of a HDD
around the lab then go to 100 computers and indiviually fix little bugs.

Kevin





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