Ken Schaefer wrote:
A agree with Joe.
Bill - you've posted no data that you managed to collect from attempting to
troubleshoot this problem, so on what basis can you conclude (or expect us
to believe) that "it's definitely a bug in WinXP"?
Don't put words in my mouth. I did not jump to the conclusion you accuse me
of. If you look below, you'll see my exact words were "it definately appears
to be a bug in Windows XP" If you feel the appearance is otherwise, that's
your opinion, but I go on further to say that I'm going to try to find time
to test my "theory" in a lab. I have both limited access to the production
environment in which this is occurring, and I can not risk downtime - which
limits the kind of testing I can do.
In addition, I posted ALL of the data I collected while troubleshooting the
problem. I won't argue that it's very little at this point, but I'm very
early in the diagnosis of this problem, and one of the early steps I took
was "post to the list to see if anyone else has any experience with this
issue".
We've got plenty of WinXP machines that we've either Ghosted, or Syspreped,
and then added to a domain. On some occasions it doesn't take, but removing
the machine, deleting the machine account in AD, and readding the machine
usually fixes things.
Are you trying to support your point or contradict yourself? If "on some
occasions it doesn't take", then what are those occasions? Can you provide
data to prove that those are operator error or other cause than a bug in
Windows XP?
Again, I am not saying there is a bug in XP. I'd have enough background
data to support it if I were to say something like that. I think my
earlier statement below is clear that I have a theory that there may be
a bug in XP, and I recognize the need for further investigation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] One computer is fine, one has "can't find domain
controller" errors
Just for an alternate viewpoint, we have tens of thousands of XP machines
that are staged in workgroup mode and added to the domain after the fact via
script. We don't see these issues.
joe
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moran
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
roseta wrote:
This actually seems very similar, since the machine that has the errors was
originally part of a workgroup, then joined to the domain, whereas the one
that doesn't produce errors was never part of a workgroup.
This definately appears to be a bug in Windows XP. We have all available
Windows updates installed, so it's apparently still a bug.
Thanks for the input. I'm going to try to find time/resources to do an
actual test on this and prove/disprove this theory.
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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