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DISABLE WAYLAND FOR SUPPORT MESH COMPATIBILITY

1 Log out of account to exit to the Lock screen
2 Select your account and go to the bottom right to click the gear icon
3 Select Gnome on Xorg 
4 Input password to proceed with login

Open Terminal

sudo -i
nano  /etc/gdm/custom.conf
1 Go to the line #WaylandEnable=false  and Delete the hashtag '#' 
2 To exit:     CTRL      +      'X' 
3 Select     'Y'    for    yes
4 To save:    'enter'   key
sudo systemctl restart gdm

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CHANGE COMPUTER NAME

 

1 Go to SETTINGS   ->   ABOUT   ->   DEVICE NAME   ->   MYDNS-IT-C12-L.M21.GOV.LOCAL
2 Restart device for name change to take effect

 

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TO JOIN THE DOMAIN

Open Terminal

sudo dnf install realmd sssd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common-tools -y
sudo unlink /etc/resolv.conf
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

Input the IP Address and the Domain Name into file

172.16.21.161
M21.GOV.LOCAL
To exit:     CTRL      +      'X' 
Select     'Y'    for    yes
To save:    'enter'   key
sudo nano /etc/hosts

Input the following lines into file

172.16.21.161    m21.gov.local M21.GOV.LOCAL
172.16.21.16    mydns-0ic16
To exit:     CTRL      +      'X' 
Select     'Y'    for    yes
To save:    'enter'   key
sudo realm discover M21.GOV.LOCAL
ping M21.GOV.LOCAL
To stop ping:       CTRL     +      'C'
sudo realm join -v M21.GOV.LOCAL –U ent_username@M21.GOV.LOCAL

Input Ent Account Password

To ensure that it was successful run the realm join code again and you should see "Already joined to this domain"

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GROUP POLICY CONFLICT RESOLVE (to login without wifi)

Open Terminal