[Samba] Re: Renaming a PDC hostname/domain remotely

[Anthony Chavez]

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:34:26 -0600 John H Terpstra <jht at Samba.Org> wrote:

> On Monday 18 July 2005 00:52, you wrote:
>> So what I'm really after are tools that could assist in re-joining these
>> workstations to their new domain.  In this particular instance, I will
>> need to do everything remotely.  VNC is a definite possibility, but
>> rather than doing this with each workstation individually, I would much
>> rather automate the process.
>
> The solution is VERY simple!
>
> Before you change the hostname and the domain name, save the domain SID.
>
> Then change both as you wish, finally, restore the SID.
>
> Done!
>
> No other changes are necessary and your domain members are still members - no 
> need to re-join the domain.

I see, so workstations will use the domain SID when communicating with
the PDC, and the PDC will not verify that with it's configured
(hostname, domain name) from which the SID was generated?  This is good
news!

Thank you yet again!

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