RE: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscores

[Roger Seielstad]

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Actually, I think it depends on very little - the only thing that comes to mind is something that is licensed to a particular domain name, but I'm not aware of any software which meets that limitation.

 

 

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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Kinnamon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:01 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscores

 

When and how can a company move away from the NetBIOS name?  My company's domain name is location specific, but now we've grown large and the domain name doesn't make much sense to employees in other parts of the world.  ( We're running W2K native mode with a mix of Win9x-XP clients. )

 

Does it depend on client OSes?  Something else?

 

 

 

Dave K.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fugleberg, David A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:34 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscores

We had the same situation - we elected to just have the dns name and the NetBIOS name of the domain be different (i.e., NetBIOS name was xxx_yyy, DNS name of the domain is zzz.company.com).  Have had no problems with having the two different names for the same domain, and we've been in production since December of 2000.  I know there's been discussion on this list about this topic before - I have not yet heard of a scenario where this causes problems, but I suppose one exists someplace :(  If so, I'd love to hear about it.

 

Users will see the 'old' name in the drop-down box when they log in to the domain, and can continue to use it wherever they need to specify the domain (like xxx_yyy\username in the NET USE command, etc.).  When you use AD tools like ADU&C, you'll deal with the 'new' DNS name.

 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscores

Hi guys,

 

I need to upgrade our domain from NT4.0.  Or domain is called RES_DOM1.  Will the underscore be compatible with ADS, i.e will NetBios be okay.  I'm going to have the DNS names space to something like res.local.  What do you think?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Lou