joindomain messup

[julianmay]

I set mu unnatended windowsXP installation to join a domain with the JoinDomain command in the .sif file. BUT

For some reason, after the installation, before runonce i launched, (where normally, the installation automatically logs on as local admin) it now prompts for username, password and domain as normal, thus not running runonce.

The DomainAdmin has been renamed for security reasons. Lets just call him "ted".

If i log on to the domain with ted's username and password, the runonce installations starts as supposed to...

Is there some way i can tell it to atuomatically log on to the domain with ted?

I already checked for "DisableDomainAdminAutoLogon" or whatsitscalled, and its set to 0...

Help is much appreciated...

... excuse my chaotic language... im danish...

- Julian

[InTheWayBoy]

I don't know for sure about the problem, but I do know this:

DisableDomainAdminAutoLogon=1

That will disable the account, but if you don't want that to happen you would think you would use this:

DisableDomainAdminAutoLogon=0

Wrong...according to M$ you need to remove the whole thing...it's only a valid command if it's enabled. To disable it you gotta yank the whole thing. I know, it's pretty lame.

For my UA I gave up on domain support. So now it's loads from the RIS server, installs XP and all the applications, and then I manually join it to the domain when I'm done. I found that if I tried to autojoin it wouldn't run WPI, which is what I use instead of runonceex. I'm sure there is a way around this, but I haven't had the time to find out. Maybe you'll figure it out for us

[Rambler]

julianmay - as far as i know, you can't logon automatically with domain credentials - the only way to automatically logon after installation is with the local (machine) administrator (which you specified in winnt.sif) via using AutoLogon=Yes, AutoLogonCount=1. Don't forget if you use these, you must use unencrypted password in winnt.sif