After following Darrell May's excellent HowTo and searching these forums for hours I haven't been able to come up with a solution. My workstation (xpclient) was a member of the SME domain. After removing xpclient from the domain I cannot re-add it. All I get is 'The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "SME": Access is denied.' I've verified that the sign or seal registry fix is active (set to 0). I've included the message log entries that are entered when attempting to join the domain below:
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Jun 10 22:55:08 smeserver e-smith[2270]: Processing event: machine-account-create xpclient$
Jun 10 22:55:08 smeserver e-smith[2270]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/machine-account-create/S10create-machine-account
Jun 10 22:55:09 smeserver /etc/e-smith/events/machine-account-create/S10create-machine-account[2271]: /home/e-smith/accounts: OLD xpclient$=(undefined)
Jun 10 22:55:09 smeserver /etc/e-smith/events/machine-account-create/S10create-machine-account[2271]: /home/e-smith/accounts: NEW xpclient$=machine
Jun 10 22:55:09 smeserver e-smith[2270]: create-machine-account xpclient$: Creating Unix user and group
Jun 10 22:55:10 smeserver e-smith[2270]: create-machine-account xpclient$: Locking account
Jun 10 22:55:10 smeserver e-smith[2270]: Locking password for user xpclient$.
Jun 10 22:55:10 smeserver e-smith[2270]: passwd: Success
Jun 10 22:55:10 smeserver e-smith[2270]: S10create-machine-account=action|Event|machine-account-create|Action|S10create-machine-account|Start|1055307308 718489|End|1055307310 349992|Elapsed|1.631503
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I'm about ready to shave my head because pulling my hair out is starting to hurt too much
Thanks for any and all suggestions or replies.
-Sterling