Hi Greg. For what it is worth your domain name does not need to have a
.com. Although I have never seen an actual win2000 domain that did not end
in .com , .net or some other "top level domain" you are correct that you can
segregate your domain with a zone file. MS recommends that you register
your internal domain name that you are using.
For instance if you use xyz.com on the Internet then use xyz.net internally
but register it just the same. My guess is that this will become more of an
issue with .NET implementations.
Renaming you domain is a hassle but with only 4 clients it is probably worth
the hassle now rather than later. You will just need to add the clients
back into the domain (if they are nt/2000).
As for the profiles there are some utilities in the reskit for 2000 that
address this as MS has some deployment tools on the web site. I would
attach one of their sample vbs scripts but I have my mail server ser to
filter them out ;).
Just go to the MS web site for Windows 2000, the to the downloads and find
the sample deployment scripts.
Hope this helps. Best of luck tonight!
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:34 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: WiN2K Server PDC Active Directory (Domain Name) , (2000 Prof)
Hey Folks,
When installing WIN2k server as a PDC at some point it asks for the hosting
name or domain name... can't remember how it asked it... and it suggestes
using the fully qualified name like something.com. Well I went ahead and
put in ?.com where ? is the name of the company. Let's call it xyz.com. It
also asks if I need to keep it compatible with (I think pre2000) operating
systems. I say yes because we have Windows 98 and some Windows 95 units. I
have to call it something different so I call it xyzfirm . I gave the
computer the name xyz.
So now when I look at the computer name it is xyz.xyz.com
Everything appears to be working ok. The Windows 98 computer will use the
domain xyzfirm since it needs the compatible version.
Questions:
1) When installing a domain server could I have said the domain was xyz
(without the .com) or did I have to use xyz.com (with the .com) portion?
The main reason for this question is I realized the xyz.com we used is
actually a valid internet domain out there. With DNS setup on the Domain
server I can overrided that in my zone file, but I would have preferred to
not have matched with real domain names.
2) Could I rename it so the domain does not have the .com?? or would this
be a majore problem after the fact.
2) There are several Windows 2000 Professional computers that use to log
into a Novell server. The profile for those users are stored as local
profiles. So when I make these 2000 Professional computers part of the
domain will it go and create a new profile for these users?? And if it does
how do I prevent them from losing all of their settings that have been
previously saved in the local profiles.
Thanks in advance.
Greg Saunders - IT Analyst
The Branch Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 40004, Roanoke, VA 24022
Phone: 540-982-1678 (x406) Fax: 540-982-4217
Carpe diem - Seize the day; Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants!
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