Norton Ghost, rpc_server

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:42, grobe at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> It's some time ago now that I asked wether it is possible to join a domain
> with a Windows 2000 client using the Norton Ghost console and Samba as pdc. I
> now found some info in Samba's logfiles, and so I can ask now for the feature
> that would be needed.
on december 20th i wrote you this message...
did you try what I suggested? what is still broken for you?


> Lars:
> 
> I'm using ghost to image our desktop systems...
> I have it running a syspreped XP image 
> that joins a temporary workgroup on initial load
> then i apply a machine specific configuration with the AI packages for
> that particular user, the right computer name, and joins the domain.
> 
> If you have no need to specify names of computers you could easily use
> the sysprep commands to join the domain during the client mini-setup.
> (each one gets a semi-random name)
> 
> To get the ghost domain joining to work I had to hack the registry 
> and
> put in a user and password with permission to do domain operations.
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NGServer\params
> 
> there should be two Reg_SZ values 
> Account
> Password
> 
> with the appropriate values...
> 
> best wishes! (easier than the script i think)
> 
> brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>