I am cloning 40 windows NT machines using Ghost and after I clone them I am attempting to reconfigure them and place them back on the domain. Below is my understanding of how it is done (which isn't working); 1) Clone the machine 2) Change computer name and switch from domain to workgroup 3) run ghost walker (to change the sid) 4) Then switch it back to domain and check the create an account in the domain box and fill in administrator and password I have attempted a few variations of this process and either get a "You already have a connection to the domain. You must disconnect before joining the domain" or "domain controller for this domain can not be located" message Please help me figure this out Thanks

Paul, I haven't done this for a while, but the best way that I remember to do this is place your image machine in the workgroup, not connected to the network. Ghost the drive. Place the drive in the new machine. Boot, change the name and reboot. While the box is rebooting, plug it into the network. Now the new host name has not already created a machine account on the PDC. Join the domain. I've done this probably a couple hundred times in the past few years.

First you clone the PC with ghost then run ghost walker. Step two is to change name of the computer and change from workgroup to domain. Choose to create a new account when you change into the domain and then restart. If you don't do It in thouse steps it wount work since an account MUST have an uniqe computer ID (ghost walker give an uniqe ID). If you try to create a account with a computer that has the same ID as another computer I wount work out.

Hi Paul! use step 3a) Service Pack 6a 4) Then switch it back to domain I don't know why, but then it's ok.

You must run ghostwalker to change the unique security identifiers (SID) for each ghosted workstation. Only applies to NT Workstation ghosted clients, not 95 or 98.

Where can I get ghost walker. I recently bought Ghost 5.0, but it is not the disk.