Re: Rejoing a domain

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From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:07:51 -0000

i have heard that domain users can join up to 10 computers to a domain also.
haven't tried this myself though. i would think those would only be
computers who had never been on the domain, trying to rejoin one may not
work this way as the computer name is already recognized.

"david lazarus" <dlazarus@volante.com.au> wrote in message
news:O3DhVFGnEHA.1444@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Based on a quick read I noticed that anonymous was trying to join the
domain
> with the Local Admin account. In order to get a computer to join a domain
> you need "Domain Admin" priviledges. Normally your system administrator
> would have these. So to answer the question you need to get an account
that
> has these priviledges and type in "domain\username" then the password. If
> you dont have priviledges you cant join. Also dont worry about deleting
the
> computer account from AD as if the computer has not been rebuilt etc. then
> it will still have the same SID and thus AD will recognise the computer
and
> allow it to use the same AD computer account.
>
> You can access the VPN because your user account has priviledges to do so.
> It has no bearing on your computer, which is why you can connect from any
> machine.
>
>

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