Swap Drives w2k3 domain

We are running a w2k3 domain with dhcp. I have multiple machines that use
swap drives. Each of the drives is running win xp - configured with a
different machine name. When the drive is changed, the user cannot logon to
the domain. The only way that I have been able to get the user onto the
domain is to bring it down to a workgroup and then back up to the domain.
When the original drive goes back in that user cannot logon unless I perform
the same procedure.

Help

Why are you surprised by that? When you boot a machine from a different
hard drive, it is effectively a different machine! (As you said yourself, it
has a different machine name). It must be joined to the domain before it can
work as a domain member. It cannot use the secure channel which the previous
"machine" used.

Mike wrote:
> We are running a w2k3 domain with dhcp. I have multiple machines that
> use swap drives. Each of the drives is running win xp - configured
> with a different machine name. When the drive is changed, the user
> cannot logon to the domain. The only way that I have been able to
> get the user onto the domain is to bring it down to a workgroup and
> then back up to the domain. When the original drive goes back in that
> user cannot logon unless I perform the same procedure.
>
> Help