Joining computer to my domain

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Whenever I have new computers or computers that need to be re-imaged when I'm
setting up an old employee's machine for a new one I have to use a corporate
ISO image. This image joins us to the corporate domain. The first thing I
have to do when I'm done with the image is join the computer to our domain.

I've been doing this for years without any problems, suddenly this is the
4th machine I've had difficulty with. When I go into my
computer|properties|computername and change the domain name, I then get
prompted for a username/password of a user with permissions to be able to
join the computer to the domain. I put in the DomainName\administrator
username/password, and there's a long pause. Then an error comes back saying
that "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation."

Oddly enough when I leave the username/password blank and hit enter it
successfully joins the machine to the domain. This concerns me because
something has changed and I fear it might be a security issue.

I'm not sure where to even start down this path, but like I said I've been
doing this for years and now suddenly I don't need to authenticate to join my
domain and that's very disturbing. Can someone help me figure out how to
troubleshoot something like this? I'm not sure I'm even going to the right
forum as it could be several different things. The machine in question is a
P4 windows XP SP2 machine.
 
Hello Penny,

Is the computername still in AD and you reuse it or did you delete it and
create it new? What about the image you use, is it syspreped?

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Penny said:
Whenever I have new computers or computers that need to be re-imaged when I'm
setting up an old employee's machine for a new one I have to use a corporate
ISO image. This image joins us to the corporate domain. The first thing I
have to do when I'm done with the image is join the computer to our domain.

I've been doing this for years without any problems, suddenly this is the
4th machine I've had difficulty with. When I go into my
computer|properties|computername and change the domain name, I then get
prompted for a username/password of a user with permissions to be able to
join the computer to the domain. I put in the DomainName\administrator
username/password, and there's a long pause. Then an error comes back saying
that "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation."

Oddly enough when I leave the username/password blank and hit enter it
successfully joins the machine to the domain. This concerns me because
something has changed and I fear it might be a security issue.

I'm not sure where to even start down this path, but like I said I've been
doing this for years and now suddenly I don't need to authenticate to join my
domain and that's very disturbing. Can someone help me figure out how to
troubleshoot something like this? I'm not sure I'm even going to the right
forum as it could be several different things. The machine in question is a
P4 windows XP SP2 machine.
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Has the image been created using Sysprep? If not, try using NewSid from
SysInternals....

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
 
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