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by tamj123 1 view

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Question:
I got an error when i try to join the domain. " Unable to update local security in order to join domain." does anyone know why?
o/s: workstation 4.0/SP5

thank you

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by nigel o gorman

Check you have "Local" administration rights to the workstation. Does the computer exist on the PDC, have you rights to create one?
Do you use "Disk Imaging" software, have you checked all SID duplication issues?
Just some things to check, hope this helps.

by tamj123

I logon as admin and i used Norton Ghost software to duplicate the image, but the problem only show on 3 out 100 computer.

by Member 35772270

The network card is not yet communicating. Try installing in a stand alone mode then joining the domain, this usually works for me.

by tamj123

I ABLE TO PING THE PDC AND ALL MY OTHER WORKSTATIONS, SO IT'S NOT THE NIC PROBLEM.

by nert

You said that you used Norton Ghost. Did you also use a SID walker to change the SID on that PC? The one that Norton includes is called GHSTWALK. It's worked wonderfully for about 300 of our machines...

by alex

Are all your machines clones that are using identical hardware? Is there anything different about these 3 machines? Perhaps different NICs? When you ping your other machines do you get full responses or do some ping reply's fail?

by alex

Ooops didn't mean to send that post yet, :P

Also as mentioned in an earlier post by Dennis, I have had luck with some machines by just making them part of a workgroup then go back and join the domain by using the admin log-in and pass and creating a computer acct on the PDC from that workstation.

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