Member of "domain" and "workgroup" disabled

[Guest]

Hi,

I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as
administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain"
and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the
"System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled.

Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install
of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
David

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Do you have a group policy apply to the computer? Use gpresult to check it.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Hi,

I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as
administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain"
and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the
"System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled.

Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install
of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
David

 

[Guest]

Hi Robert,

No group policy runnin. However, I have done some further work and noticed
that the NET LOGON and Workstation services were not running.

Therefore, I issued the following commands to start the services:

sc NetLogon binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\lsass.exe
sc Workstation binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

I then changed the service to start automatically and this appears to have
cured the problem. However, I am not sure why these services weren't there -
any ideas?

Best Regards
Dave

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Thank you for the update.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Hi Robert,

No group policy runnin. However, I have done some further work and noticed
that the NET LOGON and Workstation services were not running.

Therefore, I issued the following commands to start the services:

sc NetLogon binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\lsass.exe
sc Workstation binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

I then changed the service to start automatically and this appears to have
cured the problem. However, I am not sure why these services weren't there -
any ideas?

Best Regards
Dave