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Subject: Join to domain
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09/22/2008 5:47 AM  

Hy guys

One quick question:

I'm sure it's pretty easy for you?

I have a core image ready to deploy, how can I add join the machine that will be deployed with this image to the domain automaticaly ?

 

look forward your reply

BR

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09/22/2008 5:58 AM  
It would help if you said what operating system you were deploying.
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09/22/2008 6:12 AM  
Posted By mla1 on 09/22/2008 5:58 AM
It would help if you said what operating system you were deploying.


lol sorry

now I´m using Xp by Vista will come in a near future

Thx

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09/22/2008 6:28 AM  

To automatically join to the domain in windows xp add the following lines to sysprep.inf.

[Identification]
    JoinDomain=fully.qualified.domainname.com
    DomainAdmin=domain\domainusername
    DomainAdminPassword=pa55word

Do you need to create the computer accounts in a specfic OU ?

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09/22/2008 6:45 AM  
Posted By mla1 on 09/22/2008 6:28 AM

To automatically join to the domain in windows xp add the following lines to sysprep.inf.

[Identification]
    JoinDomain=fully.qualified.domainname.com
    DomainAdmin=domain\domainusername
    DomainAdminPassword=pa55word

Do you need to create the computer accounts in a specfic OU ?

 nope the computer accounts will be staying in the computers OU.

what do you mean by fqdn?

my domain name is xpto.local

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09/22/2008 6:50 AM  
just put that then.
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09/22/2008 9:17 AM  
my sysprep.inf file look like this

[Identification]
CreateComputerAccountInDomain=Yes
JoinDomain=domain.local
DomainAdmin=domain\user
DomainAdminPassword=password

am I missing something ?
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09/22/2008 9:29 AM  
No looks ok to me.  update your deployment point and it should work.
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09/25/2008 6:12 AM  
Posted By mla1 on 09/22/2008 9:29 AM
No looks ok to me.  update your deployment point and it should work.


done that several times, whitout luck

Any other sugestions?


 

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09/25/2008 6:37 AM  

does your custom settings.ini have the following under the section [default]

JoinDomain=testdomain.com
MachineObjectOU= "OU = Desktops,OU = Clients,DC = testdomain,DC = com"
DomainAdmin=username
DomainAdminDomain=testdomain
DomainAdminPassword=pa55word

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09/25/2008 8:10 AM  
nope
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09/26/2008 2:45 AM  
nope adding them settings does not work.  Or nope you have not got those settings.
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