SYSPREP - JOINING TO DOMAIN

[nate2345]

Is it possible to get sysprep to prompt me for a username and password at the point of joining the computer to the domain? If I just leave the uname and password blank in the sysprep.inf file or use the wrong one, I have to wait a long time at the point of trying to join the domain for it to tell me that it's not a good uname/password.

Thanks,
Nate

 

[nate2345]

Anyone?

Just to clarify, all I want to know is when the mini install begins can I get prompted for my username and password at the point of joining the computer to the network, and for 2 reasons: 1)I don't want to leave an unencrypted password in the sysprep.inf file. 2)Since my password changes I don't want to have to bother changing the password in the .inf file.

Thanks.

 

[mwiner]

Well I don't know if you can get it to prompt.. maybe you can I just don't know of it. But what you can do is just tell it to join a workgroup instead of a domain, then go back after the mini install and join.

This can be done in the sysprep.inf with:

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

My guess is that if you completely remove the
[Identification] part it might prompt you or it might just default to WORKGROUP.

-Matt

 

[wolluf]

You can do what you want - you'll need an answer file & can use setupmgr (which is part of the sysrep package) to generate this. Read the help files which also come with the sysprep package for how (I did this about 2 years ago, but can't remember exact syntax).