JoinDomainOrWorkgroup

[HodgeHi]

Good evening,

 

I was just wondering if anyone has used the JoinDomainOrWorkgroup function/command. I am looking at it for a possible method to script my XP partitions to join the AD after being re-imaged. I thought a script to lookup the active hardware/mac address and finding the corresponding Hostname, renaming the machine using this looked up hostname and then joining the AD.

 

Has anyone got an example and possibly a description of what each bit does?

 

This should be good if i can get it to work. Would be a fully deployed XP/OS X machine from bare-metal to fully up and running.

 

TIA

[Michael]

I am looking at it for a possible method to script my XP partitions to join the AD after being re-imaged.

 

You can use Sysprep to create an answer file so after imaging, your XP machine automatically joins the domain. As for OS X I'm not sure if you can automate it to join a Windows domain. I'm not a Mac expert, but hopefully someone else can help.

[somabc]

You certainly can

 

Mac OS X Manual Page For dsconfigad(8)

 

eg

 

 

dsconfigad -a ThisComputer -u "administrator" -ou "CN=Computers,OU=Engineering,DC=ads,DC=demo,DC=com" -domain domain.ads.apple.com

Edited August 27, 2009 by somabc

[MatthewL]

We have ours join our domain, name up as the Dell service tag and then place the computer account in a certain OU rather than the Computers OU.

[Ric_]

You certainly can

 

Mac OS X Manual Page For dsconfigad(8)

 

eg

 

 

dsconfigad -a ThisComputer -u "administrator" -ou "CN=Computers,OU=Engineering,DC=ads,DC=demo,DC=com" -domain domain.ads.apple.com

 

Or you could hack the script at http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php/Changing_the_computername_and_joining_Open_Directory_and_Active_Directory a bit to fully automate things.

[HodgeHi]

Or you could hack the script at http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php/Changing_the_computername_and_joining_Open_Directory_and_Active_Directory a bit to fully automate things.

 

I do this as part of the deploystudio imaging process. No scripting needed, just tick a few boxes and enter a few details This suits me well

 

@MatthewL

 

Do you use the joindomainorworkgroup for this?

 

If so have you got an example that you could share of the script you use?

[MatthewL]

I'm not sure at the moment as I am now on leave for a week and I dont want to log back in on the laptop to check as I will only get involved doing other bits. When I get chance I will have a look.

[MatthewL]

Just got back into the office and had a look at our sysprep.ini file for networking identification shows the following:

 

[identification]
   JoinDomain={DOMAIN}
   DomainAdmin={DOMAIN}\oursysprepusername
   DomainAdminPassword=ourpassword!
   MachineObjectOU = "OU = Sysprep,OU = CTP, OU = Computers, OU = {OU},DC = {DOMAIN},DC = {DC},DC = UK"

Edited February 24, 2021 by ZeroHour