Join Workgroup from command line

[Guest]

Hi
Is there a way to join a windows 2000 pro computer to a workgroup from command line or vbscript
Any help is greatly appreciated
Lefteris

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

Hi,
Is there a way to join a windows 2000 pro computer to a workgroup from
command line or vbscript? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Lefteris

Try this as a .vbs file. (watch for line wrapping)

Andy.




'Adds a computer to a Workgroup or Domain then reboots.

'Set the strDomain, strUser and strPassword to suit your environment


Option Explicit

Const JOIN_DOMAIN = 1
Const ACCT_CREATE = 2
Const ACCT_DELETE = 4
Const WIN9X_UPGRADE = 16
Const DOMAIN_JOIN_IF_JOINED = 32
Const JOIN_UNSECURE = 64
Const MACHINE_PASSWORD_PASSED = 128
Const DEFERRED_SPN_SET = 256
Const INSTALL_INVOCATION = 262144

Dim strDomain, strPassword, strUser, strComputer, ReturnValue
Dim objComputer, objNetwork, objWMIService, objOperatingSystem
Dim colOperatingSystems

'Domain or workgroup name
strDomain = "Domain_Or_Workgroup_Name"

'Account details with access to add computers to domain or workgroup
strUser = "Account"
strPassword = "Password"


'Add the computer to the domain/workgroup
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName

Set objComputer = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!
\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\cimv2:Win32
_ComputerSystem.Name='" & _
strComputer & "'")

ReturnValue = objComputer.JoinDomainOrWorkGroup(strDomain, _
strPassword, _
strDomain & "\" &
strUser, _
NULL, _
JOIN_DOMAIN +
ACCT_CREATE)

'Display Completion Message to user
Dim objShell, intValue

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
intValue = objShell.Popup("Your computer has been added to the ' &
strDomain & ' Domain." _
& vbCRLF & "Your computer will now reboot.", , , vbExclamation
+ vbOKOnly)


'Reboot PC
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & strComputer &
"\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
ObjOperatingSystem.Reboot()
Next

 

[Guest]

Dear Andy,
thanks for your answer. I am afraid this only works for XP. Do u have any other ideas

from: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...000/server/scriptguide/en-us/sas_wmi_osjn.msp

"the Win32_ComputerSystem class does not support the JoinDomainOrWorkGroup method on Windows 2000. The JoinDomainOrWorkGroup method was added to the Win32_ComputerSystem class in the version of WMI included with Windows XP.

Thanks a lot for the help

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is there a way to join a windows 2000 pro computer to a workgroup
from command line or vbscript? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Look into the NETDOM command line tool.