This section describes the two ways in which you can join a NetCache appliance to a Microsoft Windows NT domain. You can deploy the appliance in enterprise environments that rely on use of Microsoft Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) to authenticate the appliance to a Microsoft Windows NT domain. Alternatively, you can deploy the appliance in environments that require the cache to authenticate to a Microsoft Windows NT domain without using WINS to resolve the NetCache name and authenticate to the domain.
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Before you join a appliance to an NT domain, you must manually create a machine account for the cache. An NT machine account uses an initial password that is not difficult to discern. The appliance changes this password as part of the domain join process.
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