Joining an NT domain using the command line?

[Burch, Phil]

Has anyone found a good way to change the local machine names on a 'lab' of
NT workstations after cloning them? I have done some weird stuff with making
batch files into services that call regedit and tweak the machine name
settings but it really isn't efficient.

Phil Burch
Computing Services
North Seattle Community College
http://nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Rae [mailto:iainr at civ.hw.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Joining an NT domain using the command line?


On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Matt Chapman wrote:

> Iain Rae wrote:
> > 
> > imagecast generates SID's ok and changes the hostname but won't
> > postconfigure the domain appropriately. If we clone a PC which is
already
> > in the domain it will set everything up but in order to get logons
working
> > you have to mess with the control panel as described in the NTDOM FAQ.
> > 
> 
> Try cloning a PC which is already in the domain and then cloning its
> smbpasswd entry, so that the trust password is the same.
> 
> There is nothing special about the process of "joining a domain"; it
> just involves a synchronisation of secrets.
> 
> 	Matt
Now why didn't I think of that.

Of course, it works.

thanks





> 
> 
> -- 
> Matt Chapman
> m.chapman at student.unsw.edu.au
> 


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