T520 Thin Client, How do I join a domain?

[karchambault]

I need to put my thin clients on the domain.

No right click, no 'system' in the control panel... How do I loosen things up so I can do some basic administration?

[WAWood]

karchambault

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

Here is detailed help on joining a Win7 machine to a Domain: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_host_to_a_domain

Good Luck

[karchambault · Accepted solution]

Not quite what I needed.

I am logged on as Administrator

There is no "System" icon in "All Control Panel Items" to interact with.

in Explorer, 'Computer' is not right clickable so there is no drop-down context menu to pick "properties" from.

NETDom is not a valid command from the command prompt - elevated = yes.

What I found to work by experimentation is;

From an elevated command prompt, type 'explorer'.

This brings up an explorer window which lists both "C" and "RAMDrive".

(Just clicking on the start menu and computer in the conventional way, only shows "RAMDrive".)

From there you can right click 'Computer' and bring up the familiar 'Control Panel>All Control Panel Items>System'

Then it's the usual "Change Settings" in the Change Workgroup Settings" area.