Re: Active Directory computers

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Windows 98 machines aren't members of the domain. They only have the concept of a workgroup, you just specify the domain for the workgroup.

Members of a domain NEED the actual computer accounts to establish the trust connection.

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CAMC1 wrote:
Computer was joined to domain, but was W98 computer, seldom they log into
network drives (most of the time the just cancel at logon)
I have a few win98 machines that required simple production functions...

Thanks
MC

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Here is my findings with this tool.
According to report I get, it tells me computer
ABC pwdLastSet=2002/08/22.... and Whencreated==2002/08/22....

I looked at "SYmantec System Center", and saw that this computer ABC was
last scanned and definitions updated 8/28/2006

then I realized that, computer actually exist and it is in my network.
So those dates that this tools produces are not enoughf for me to delete
the
computer names from Active Directory.

Am I missing something else here?

MC
It sounds like the computer is not joined to the domain, or has an OS
before
NT. I have a Win9x client in my network, for example. Win9x clients do not
authenticate to the domain, but I created an object for it so I could test
for group membership during logon to attach printers. I find that
whenCreated and pwdLastSet are the same long ago date for this object. The
machine is there, it can be pinged, maybe virus signarure files can be
deployed to it, but it never authenticates.

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Richard
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net




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