Robert Steinmetz wrote:
I have a small Samba installation, two servers and about 10
workstations. The hard drive on one of the Windows XP workstations
failed. I cloned a drive a from an identical machine and replaced the
defective drive. When it came up it had the name of the original
machine (which was off). It worked fine.
This group is small and fairly stable so I add machines to the domain
manually. The server uses tdbsam backend.
On the repaired machine I changed the name of the machine to NEW and
set the Workgroup to WORKGROUP and rebooted.
I deleted the original machine account using smbpasswd -x restarted
samba and recreated it using smbpasswd -a -m.
You cannot just clone a Windows workstation. You will have to change the
SID (Security ID) of the clone. Otherwise, you end up with two machines
with the same SID on the network, which is asking for trouble.
You will have to use some utility to change the SID of the new machine.
If you use Ghost to clone your computers, you will then use Ghost Walker
to change the SID. Microsoft includes a utility to clone a machine and
change the SIDs on the clones.
The "sysprep" utility included in the Windows XP installation CD, under
\SUPPORT\TOOLS, also takes care of cloning and subsequent changing of
the SID.
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