Re-join a domain without using the admin password

[marco]

I have a group of machines that belong to a domain (for examploe,
called DOMAIN). On some machines, the disk was erased and a new
operating system was installed (sometimes Windows 2000 and on others
Windows XP Pro). The hostnames of the machines remained the same.

Is at all possible, without supplying the admin password of the domain
for the client machines to re-join? For example (the command is from
the top of my head), issuing: netdom /dOMAIN /u:username /
password gives "access denied". (I know the username/password of a
member of the domain, but not the admin password).

Sincere regards, and forgive me in advance for any technical mistake,
Marco

 

[Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]]

by default each authenticated user can add up to 10 machines to a domain.
that configuration is often removed to prevent all kinds of unknown/unwanted
machines


to rejoin machines to an existing account, you need to reset the account
first in AD and then join the new machine to it

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Cheers,
(HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPS YOU!)

# Jorge de Almeida Pinto # MVP Windows Server - Directory Services

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[marco]

by default each authenticated user can add up to 10 machines to a domain.
that configuration is often removed to prevent all kinds of unknown/unwanted
machines

to rejoin machines to an existing account, you need to reset the account
first in AD and then join the new machine to it

--

Cheers,
(HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION HELPS YOU!)

# Jorge de Almeida Pinto # MVP Windows Server - Directory Services

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Oh I see :-( I was hoping that I could to this myself without calling
the administrator of the AD.

Thanks for the reply,
Marco