Topic: XP cannot join domain on new cloned machine

[greg]

Dear All,

I have a stupid question - but I have tried many things without success.
I had the bad luck that two of my disks failed in my Hardware RAID 10 setup. Unfortunately it was both sides of the mirror.

Now I have replaced the disks with fresh ones, and set up exactly the same system from the latest backup. All parameters, addresses are the same.
However, the XP clients will not join the new domain on the new machine, despite it's identical to the old one.

Anybody got a clue?

TIA,

/Greg

[steever]

I assume that because your new server is identical to the old that it has the same domain name?  On the workstation you need to leave the domain (if its currently a member of the domain) - just change to workgroup WORKGROUP (note:  don't make the workgroup's name the same as the domain name). When you leave the domain it may ask for a username/password - just use your current SME admin details.  Reboot.  Join the domain. Reboot.  You're back! (Probably)

[raem]

greg

> I ... set up exactly the same system from the latest backup. All parameters, addresses are the same.
> However, the XP clients will not join the new domain on the new machine, despite it's identical to the old one.

Is it really identical ?
How did you perform the backup & restore ? Was it a full system backup and restore ? Did you use tape backup or something else ?
If correctly done, then all machine & user accounts & passwords should have been replicated and your workstations should have been able to login to the domain without problem. In that case report it as a bug against the backup method you used.

If you backed up/restored some other way, then you probably did not restore the complete amount of configuration data required eg machine accounts, secrets.tdb, which will prevent your existing workstations from logging in to the domain.

[greg]

Many thanks both of you.

Ray - I used the old description discussed here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32522.0;topicseen
But something is not ok with this method.

Therefore, I manually put everything back from the backup on a new machine - with a novel domain configured. Thereafter i used Netdom to change WS domains.

Thanks again for your help..

/Greg

[raem]

I used the old description discussed here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32522.0;topicseen
But something is not ok with this method.

Like I said earlier, I don't see /etc/samba/secrets.tdb included in the list of files/directories needed for a bare metal migration.