Computer Display Names with $ at end

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I am when computers are added to the domain, they are
showing up in AD with a $ at the end of the name. I
don't know how this is happening, but I would like to fix
it.

I am also having users who have connected to the network
before are getting errors saying that they can't be
authenticated. I beleive this is because of the computer
name difference (their computer doesn't have the $ it the
name)

Please help. This started 1 1/2 weeks ago and seems to be
getting worse with user logins (or computer logins)

-marie
 
Computer samaccountnames have $ on the end of it. That is the way it always was
in NT4 as well.

Do a dump of a computer object and look at the name attributes.

samaccountname should have a $ on the end. It used to be the way to hide them
from user display lists since computer accounts are simply special user accounts.

The dn, cn, name, and dNSHostName attributes should not have the $ on the end.

Ex:

[Thu 07/08/2004 12:17:32.38]
F:\DEV\cpp\AdMod>adfind -b CN=fastmofo,CN=Computers,DC=joe,DC=com |grep -i fastmofo

AdFind V01.17.00cpp Joe Richards ([email protected]) May 2004

File STDIN:
dn:CN=fastmofo,CN=Computers,DC=joe,DC=com
cn: fastmofo
distinguishedName: CN=fastmofo,CN=Computers,DC=joe,DC=com
name: fastmofo
sAMAccountName: FASTMOFO$
dNSHostName: fastmofo.joe.com
servicePrincipalName: HOST/FASTMOFO
servicePrincipalName: HOST/fastmofo.joe.com
Click to expand...

[Thu 07/08/2004 12:19:21.79]
F:\DEV\cpp\AdMod>
 
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