[Samba] Re: Samba Domain Login

Jim Wharton jwharton at acpafl.org
Fri Feb 28 16:23:37 GMT 2003


Strike that, I just checked the sysprep docs and I can't find a way to run
it wihtout running minisetup. The tool from sysinternals works very well
though.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net at lists.samba.org]On
>  Behalf Of
> Jim Wharton
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: 'Brent Torrenga'; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Re: Samba Domain Login
>
>
> Microsoft provides sysprep for this purpose. It is
> downloadable from their
> website. There is an option to run sysprep without having to
> run the whole
> minisetup routine.
>
> Symantec, Sysinternals and Powerquest also provide utilities
> to do the same
> thing.
>
> Jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-bounces+creole3=bellsouth.net at lists.samba.org]On
> >  Behalf Of
> > Brent Torrenga
> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:59 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Re: Samba Domain Login
> >
> >
> > Ok, yes, SID could be the issue. With each install of
> > windows, there is a
> > unique SID that gets created (I think). I recall seeing a
> > caution about
> > imaging W2k for this reason, the images will NOT have UNIQUE SID's.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > There should be a way to cause windows to recreate a random sid?
> >
> >
> > "Finn Blucher" <finn at finerdetails.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:20030227112129.03f3c20a.finn at finerdetails.com.au...
> > > Okay,
> > >    I'm really starting to run out of ideas here. Any help
> > would really
> > > be handy. I'm looking after a small network, clients are
> > running win2000
> > > SP3 and a Linux Server running samba, doing domain logins.
> > Everything is
> > > working fine apart from two machines (from ten). Probably
> > once a week
> > > one of them will fail to login in after a reboot or log
> off. If any
> > > user tries to login into the domain it comes up with the
> error "The
> > > system cannot log you on to the domain because the
> systems computer
> > > account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
> > > that account is incorrect." Now the fix for this is simple
> > enough. I log
> > > into the local machine put the workstation back to a
> > workgroup, reboot,
> > > log in and re-add the computer to the domain and every ones
> > happy ( for
> > > a week or so). I've re-imaged the machines from one of the
> > machines on
> > > the network that doesn't exhibit the problem and sure
> > enough, after a
> > > week or so, down she goes. I've physically swapped one of
> > the failing
> > > machines out for a working one and shortly after the "new"
> > machine is
> > > failing again. There is no difference in the software or hardware
> > > between any of the machines on the network, all part of the
> > same roll
> > > out, all on the same image. All of the machines except for
> > one have done
> > > had this problem, but only once, after I put them to
> > workgroup then back
> > > to domain they're happy and have been for six months, it's
> > just these
> > > two machines that keep doing it. The two failing machines
> > are not near
> > > each other but they are occasionally used by the same user.
> > I've got the
> > > logs if that will help people.
> > >
> > > Any help really apreciated,
> > > Finn.
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