[Lilux-help] A windows question: joining XP to a samba 3.0 domain

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Henri Majerus wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 09:45, Alain Knaff wrote:
>
> > All went fine until the very end. After cloning our newly set up
> > client to the 9 others we noticed that we could no longer join the
> > domain:
>
> I presume your problem is only with the windows clones...
>
> In fact windows identifies windows 2000 and XP computers on a domain not
> only by name but also by SID. On cloned computers this is a problem!

Yup, that's plausible.

> I newer checked for a solution since I don't have the need for a domain
> but here one result of a google search:
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtmls...

There is also some "sysprep" utility to use on the "master"
before cloning an MS Windows machine, which allows to remove
such specifics - no idea though how this gets (re)set after
cloning - I guess it's a case for RTFM'ing ;-)

Greets & hth, Eric