Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
This is what I am trying to set up. But our local AD won't let my machine join. I am pretty sure I am talking to it. For example, if I try my own AD account, I get a permission error - I cannot add machines. If I use a wrong password, it says my login is bad. I think our IT guys have turned off allowing anonymous users to add machines to the AD. Or there is an old record for this machine that I cannot alter as an anonymous user. I am trying to get the IT guys to sort this out. No answer yet..
Based on my experience working for multiple companies with AD domains, I'd be amazed if *any* company allowed machine accounts to be created by an anonymous user. I'm not saying it's not possible -- just that I've never seen it done that way by any company. At my present company, because of some of my assigned duties, I have Jr. Deputy Assistant SysAdmin credentials, and can join machines to our corporate domain. But I realize that's a rare privilege, and I treat it as such. As a developer with an independent streak, I sometimes get the feeling that IT is getting in my way. But if you think about it, they have a difficult and stressful job, and the less "locked down" their network is, the harder it is to keep it all running right. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org