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Browse All TopicsI am building PC's from a ghost image, so when they first boot up, they have the same computer name, are on dhcp, and are not part of the domain. I have figured out how to change the computer name and the ipaddress(thanks to people here), but how do I connect the pc to the domain. This is my batch file so far:
set /p YourIP=What is your IP address?
echo YourIP=%YourIP%
netsh interface ip set address local static %YourIP% 255.255.240.0 192.168.2.254 1
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.19
netsh interface ip add dns "Local Area Connection" 192.168.0.25
netsh interface ip set wins "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.2
netsh interface ip add Wins "Local Area Connection" 192.168.0.6
Set /P Name="Enter the new computer name: "
:// Now, make the changes to the registry:
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
after it changes the name you are supposed to reboot. Can you change the computername and add to the domain w/o restarting? If I use this, and then use a netdom command I get the error message that the domain cannot be found
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by: sirbountyPosted on 2005-09-29 at 06:01:17ID: 14983132
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