On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 09:54 -0500, Silent Ph03nix wrote:
I believe Windows 2003 allowed a domain user to join 10 machines to the domain. After that it requires a domain admin to add the machine to the domain. Most of us that are admins, however, normally turn that feature off and only allow domain admins or some local admins to join machines to the domain. That way, we control what gets joined to our domain and some random user can't just join machines to the domain at will. And I believe in Windows 2000 and previous that you had to be a domain admin to join a machine to the domain. So, I would bet that that is what you are running into. Your admins have locked it down so a normal user can't join the machine to the domain. You really have 2 options that I see. You can call your IT department, and they might send someone to you to join your machine to the domain for you or you don't join to the domain and just enter your domain credentials when trying to connect to a domain resource. Even as the admin this last method is the one I usually employ. None of my linux boxen are joined to my domain.
Don't know if any of that helps, that that's my $.02 as both a linux and windows admin.
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