NETDOM HELP command

NETDOM HELP command
-or-
NETDOM command /help

Commands available are:

NETDOM ADD NETDOM QUERY NETDOM TRUST
NETDOM HELP NETDOM REMOVE NETDOM VERIFY
NETDOM JOIN NETDOM RENAME NETDOM TIME
NETDOM MOVE NETDOM RESET NETDOM RESETPWD

NETDOM HELP SYNTAX explains how to read NET HELP syntax lines.
NETDOM HELP command | MORE displays Help one screen at a time.

Note that verbose output can be specified by including /VERBOSE with
any of the above netdom commands.

----NETDOM help JOIN-------------------------------


NETDOM JOIN machine /Domain:domain [/OU:ou path] [/UserD:user]

[/PasswordD:[password | *]]

[UserO:user] [/PasswordO:[password | *]]

[/REBoot[:Time in seconds]]



NETDOM JOIN Joins a workstation or member server to the domain.

machine is the name of the workstation or member server to be joined



/Domain Specifies the domain which the machine should join

/UserD User account used to make the connection with the domain

specified by the /Domain argument

/PasswordD Password of the user account specified by /UserD. A * means

to prompt for the password

/UserO User account used to make the connection with the machine to

be joined

/PasswordO Password of the user account specified by /UserO. A * means

to prompt for the password

/OU Organizational unit under which to create the machine account.

This must be a fully qualified RFC 1779 DN for the OU.

If not specified, the account will be created under the default

organization unit for machine objects for that domain.

/REBoot Specifies that the machine should be shutdown and automatically

rebooted after the Join has completed. The number of seconds

before automatic shutdown can also be provided. Default is

20 seconds



When joining a downlevel (Windows NT version 4 or before) machine to the domain

the operation is not transacted. Thus, a failure during the operation could

leave the machine in an undetermined state with respect to the domain it is

joined to.



The act of joining a machine to the domain will create an account for the

machine on the domain if it does not already exist.



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