The SAMBA-LDAP-PDC Howto

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• double click on ”Network” and the ”modify” button
• you must now see the machine’s name and the domain’s name. You have to change
the default parameters, or modifie a previous configuration. Then select the ”domain”
option and add the name of the domain you want to join.
• click on the ”ok” button
• the computer is already registered so that you normally have the welcome message
”welcome to domain IDEALX-NT”
• restart your windows system.
for Microsoft Windows NT 2000:
• logged into windows using the administrator account.
• click on the ”start” menu, ”Parameters” and ”Configuration”.
• double click on ”System”, select the onglet ”Network identification” and then ”properties”.
• you must now see the machine’s name. You have to change the default parameters, or
to modifie a previous configuration by indicating the domaine name.
• the computer is already registered so that you normally have the welcome message
”welcome to domain IDEALX-NT”
• restart your windows system.

14.3

Adding a new computer in the domain automatically

A second way to do this can be directly done directly from Microsoft Windows NT environnement, using the administrator priviledged account. This procedure will create automatically
an account for the comuter, and will also join it to the domain.
To do so, follow the same steps as the previous section described in section 14.2 on the page
before. When informing the domain name, ask for creating a new compuetr account, and add
the administrator account For Microsoft Windows NT 2000, the account is asked when prssing
the ”ok” button.
• Login : administrator
• Password : coucou

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