problem joining domain during unattended install

[ixion]

I'm having difficulty getting my PC to join a domain during the installation.

I have copied over my LAN drivers into the drivers folder and specified them in the oem drivers section of winnt.sif - when the installation in complete and it logs me into windows the NIC does work so this bit is working I beleive. I am using the nforce onboard NIC

the problem is that during the install the pc cant find the domain, I've also tried pinging the IP address that was handed out to that same machine prior to rebuild, presuming that the DHCP server would assign the same IP address as it was up only a few minutes ago and I am not getting a ping reply.

I can only assume that the NIC interface is not up during the unattended installation even though windows does find the drivers for it and installs them for me

Any suggestions??

[BritishBulldog]

Is the NIC getting an IP address? Have you got DHCP=yes in the winnt.sif?

I had trouble with this but found a solution

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=31503

try this to logon to the daomain

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="*username*"
"DefaultPassword"="*userpassword*"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultDomainName" = "*Domain*"

make sure after your install that you change the "AutoAdminLogin"="0"

otherwise the computer will autologin all the time.

I have got this working at work but dont have the settings here at home. I will double check on monday and post again then.