Join XP Pro to Domain

[Madd]

Hi

Running a 2003 NW, and just installed XP Pro on a machine,
creating a user on the XP box during setup. After setup,I
joined PC to Domain, but cannot logon on to domain using
Domain credentials (when trying to logon, get message
about can't logon to this pc interactively????)

Reinstalled XP, this time without creating a user during
setup, and joined PC to domain during setup (all
Successful), but still can't logon to Domain using a
domain account from this PC due to the
previous "Interactive Logon" error message.

Any ideas???

Cheers

 

[Ron]

I know you probably added a local user account to the
machine but did you create a domain account on the xp
machine.

1. Login as local admin
2. right click on my computer and go to manage
3. Expand the Local Users and Groups plus sign
4. Under groups Check in the admin section and see if you
see the domain user account. DomainName\User.

Or what ever rights you are given the domain user on the
local Machine check to see if the user is there. Power
User, User etc...

If the account is not under any of those, simply double
click one of the groups then click add. That should bring
up an additonal screen. Click the drop down box and point
it to the domain. It should ask for a user account that
has access to view the domain (when typing in your domain
account make sure you put domain\user then what ever your
password is). once the domain is up you are able to view
the domain accounts and add it to the local machine.

If you would like better clarification just do another
reply.

Ron

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I know you probably added a local user account to the
machine but did you create a domain account on the xp
machine.

1. Login as local admin
2. right click on my computer and go to manage
3. Expand the Local Users and Groups plus sign
4. Under groups Check in the admin section and see if you
see the domain user account. DomainName\User.

Or what ever rights you are given the domain user on the
local Machine check to see if the user is there. Power
User, User etc...

If the account is not under any of those, simply double
click one of the groups then click add. That should bring
up an additonal screen. Click the drop down box and point
it to the domain. It should ask for a user account that
has access to view the domain (when typing in your domain
account make sure you put domain\user then what ever your
password is). once the domain is up you are able to view
the domain accounts and add it to the local machine.

If you would like better clarification just do another
reply.

Ron
.

 

[Madd]

Hi Ron

I see where you're going, but that won't really help,
because:

We are running a W2K3 AD Domain with 100 W2K Pro clients.
I installed XP Pro on a new machine to evaluate, as we are
planning 100 new PC's and will be installing XP Pro on
them all.

During the test install of XP, everything went fine, and
the computer joined the Domain (sys props verifies this
and the computer appears in AD).

Now, using an "Existing" Domain User Account, I should be
able to logon to the Domain from the XP box (regardless of
any local user accounts on the xp pc).

If you consider we have to install 100 XP machines, it
would be a royal pain to go physically to every box and
make the changes.

The Domain logon should work without a problem, but for
some reason the xp box seems to think I want to logon
interactively with it (very weird).

Not sure if all that made sense, any ideas??

Cheers

Madd