On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:51, Frankie wrote: > However I can't get it to connect to the domain on the NT > server.
You have to do a right-click on My Computer => Properties => Computer Name => you have two options to use from there => you might also want to check the NT server and make sure that the computer name exists in the NT Domain or even remove the computer name from the domain and re-add the computer name => else rename the workstation name and add to the domain => of course, you're going to need to know the administrator login and password in order to do all of this anyways. > I thought this might be a case of windows XP using encrypted > passwords and such but a look in the MS helpfile on XP says > that the default is to not do that.. is that true?? Nah. Might even be that the "domain" is merely a glorified "workgroup" and that the machine's names aren't even added...but I could be wrong. > IP: 192.168.0.13 > GATEWAY: 192.168.0.1 > WINS: 192.168.0.1 (which is the IP of the NT server.) > NAME: OLDKEN > DOMAIN: HAMMON Remember that Win98 and Win95 "clients" aren't treated in the domain the same way as an NT machine is treated in the domain, so you might even want to sit back and just recreate the client machine's ID's; since you've got five machines, *I* would just create five new machine names for the domain, and once each machine is upgraded - or during the process of the upgrade, add them or connect them to the domain per each machine's new ID... > I can't wait to fdisk NT and load linux on, but its a > working network and I am not permitted to take it down and > do the lot in one hit so I have to get XP working with the > existing server first and finish upgrading the workstations. You could always just back up the server's stuff first, then load linux and setup SAMBA, throw the file back onto the server, and then create each of the client machines as clients again - else setup SAMBA to be the NT domain controller (PDC) and add the machines as per the instructions in the Samba documentation - then you'd have a "fully qualified NT domain" with the machines upgraded and doing their part... -- Thu Jul 31 21:00:00 EST 2003 21:00:00 up 4:02, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 0.89, 0.84 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Win98 is called Win98 because you need 98 MB RAM to install it.
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