unattended setup, logging on to domain. How TO?

[Barry R Cisna]

Windows 2000 Pro__


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How do I log the computer onto the domain,rather than the computer after
the installation is complete,?

( I have the administrator set to log onto th computer one time,, ( is
this wrong?),,,

Seems like it should be some simple scripting into the answer
file,,somehow But i can find out how to...

Thanks,,

Barry

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Use [GuiRunOnce] to patch the registry appropriately and reboot.

The registry keys you want are named DefaultUserName, DefaultPassword,
DefaultDomainName, and AutoAdminLogon. They all live under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Do a
Google search on them for details.

For a Perl script which can patch the registry for you, see
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html#autolog>.

- Pat

 

[Barry R Cisna]

HI Patrick,,,


Thanks once again for this reg patch,,,although I dont think this will
work for want im trying to accomplish,,,

Im wanting to install all of my addittional applications,, the first
time the unattneded installation is finished,,,,from the >network
ditribution folder<.IE \\server\share\$oem$\apps\---

Theonly way I can make this work for now is to do the folowing

$oem$\$1\C\apps which copies the apps//folder to the local
C[hardricve] then installs eveything from the local machine,,
( im wanting to avoid having to copy all the installation Apps to the
local machines hard drive,, due to small HD's on these old PC's)..)..
With what you show me here the machine reboots,, which will not
"auto-install the apps,,IE [GUIRunOnce] with out "manually' doign the
installs of the apps,,( do to the machine having to be rebooted for the reg
changes) the the GUIRunonce script has gone by the wayside..
Does this make sense,,what Ive said here??

I just need to have the >administrator< log onto the Domain ,the first
time Windows unattneded install is finished,>not onto the machine---IE:
usermachine<,---,not a reboot routine,,,..This is so the local machine is
seeing the distribution folde r on the server not just the Local C:
drive...

Thanks again,,

BARRY

Use [GuiRunOnce] to patch the registry appropriately and reboot.

The registry keys you want are named DefaultUserName, DefaultPassword,
DefaultDomainName, and AutoAdminLogon. They all live under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Do a
Google search on them for details.

For a Perl script which can patch the registry for you, see
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html#autolog>.

- Pat

Windows 2000 Pro__


_________________________________________________________________________

How do I log the computer onto the domain,rather than the computer after
the installation is complete,?

( I have the administrator set to log onto th computer one time,, ( is
this wrong?),,,

Seems like it should be some simple scripting into the answer
file,,somehow But i can find out how to...

Thanks,,

Barry

 

[Josh Norden]

Barry,

I had the same delima with a system a little while back...

I found two solutions:

1: capture the applications with whistler and deploy
them... this works well if you assign the app to the
machines through group policy... Auto deployment without
logging on.

2: use the "additional application installation" section
of the IE administration pack setup or the GUI_run_once
section of the setup information file. The issue that I
had with this was that the local administrator and the
domain administrator did not use the same password which
was easly solved by changing the domain administrators
account name (suggested by microsoft as part of the
security protocol anyway) and creating a limited user
named "administrator" with the password that was
distributed during the RIS setup... Then use the script
entry AutoLogon and AutoLogonCount to log on as the local
administrator.

I would be leary of using an auto_admin_logon with the
domain administrators account because even after the
auto_logon_count entry expires, the username, password,
and default_domain entries are left in clear text in the
registry for anyone to read with the registry editor.

Josh Norden

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

In addition to patching the registry to log on using a domain account,
you can also patch it to automatically run a new script upon logon.
The registry key you want is "Run" or "RunOnce" on "RunOnceEx",
depending on your tastes... See
<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179365> and
<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=137367>.

So the strategy is to use [GuiRunOnce] to run a script. That script
reboots the machine, after patching the registry to automatically log
on with a domain account and run another script.

But really, it's easier to set up a share which allows read-only guest
access and then perform the installations from there using the local
admin account.

- Pat