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Member of "domain" and "workgroup" disabledHi,
I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain" and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the "System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled. Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check? Any help would be appreciated. Regards David Do you have a group policy apply to the computer? Use gpresult to check it.
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "davidpmiller" <davidpmil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E08E55C5-4F13-4921-A866-CFDB7F851B4B@microsoft.com... I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as Hi, administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain" and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the "System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled. Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check? Any help would be appreciated. Regards David Hi Robert,
No group policy runnin. However, I have done some further work and noticed that the NET LOGON and Workstation services were not running. Therefore, I issued the following commands to start the services: sc NetLogon binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\lsass.exe sc Workstation binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I then changed the service to start automatically and this appears to have cured the problem. However, I am not sure why these services weren't there - any ideas? Best Regards Dave Show quoteHide quote "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote: > Do you have a group policy apply to the computer? Use gpresult to check it. > > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com > "davidpmiller" <davidpmil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E08E55C5-4F13-4921-A866-CFDB7F851B4B@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as > administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain" > and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the > "System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled. > > Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install > of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards > David Thank you for the update.
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "davidpmiller" <davidpmil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6AEC1873-D8C9-44B2-B8E6-99CD8C9CA9B0@microsoft.com... Hi Robert,No group policy runnin. However, I have done some further work and noticed that the NET LOGON and Workstation services were not running. Therefore, I issued the following commands to start the services: sc NetLogon binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\lsass.exe sc Workstation binPath= C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I then changed the service to start automatically and this appears to have cured the problem. However, I am not sure why these services weren't there - any ideas? Best Regards Dave Show quoteHide quote "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote: > Do you have a group policy apply to the computer? Use gpresult to check it. > > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com > "davidpmiller" <davidpmil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E08E55C5-4F13-4921-A866-CFDB7F851B4B@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I am trying to connect my XP Pro laptop to a domain. I am logged on as > administrator and am running SP2. Unfortunately, both the "member of domain" > and workgroup options are greyed out. In addition "Network ID" from the > "System Properties - Computer Name" tab is also disabled. > > Is there anyway to enable these options without going through a re-install > of XP? Are there any policy type settings that I could check? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards > David 
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