I'm curious now, what disadvantage is there if they login with the netbios
name rather than the ad name?
Robert
> Now, log in, but when at the username/password/domain box, type in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the username, and the normal password. You'll notice
> the domain box go grey. Click OK and presto, you're logged in.
>
> I like it because you can set it to be the user's email address. Go into
> Domains and Trusts (something like that...don't have it in front of
> me)...when in there, right click on the very top level and click Properties.
> You'll see the UPN options there. You can enter in anything you want there
> and it will show up in that listbox where you first saw @whatever.com
>
> So, basically you can have whatever you want for the domain name, but give
> the users something pretty for when they log in. eg. Domain name is
> west.us.domain.com but you don't want the user to type in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] every time but you also don't want them using the old
> netbios domain name either. So define a UPN that's just domain.com...so they
> login with [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Really nice because AD doesn't care where the user is...it'll take that
> login, look at the GC, find the login server and log in the user.
>
> David.
> PS. Sorry for the long posts...I just feel like spilling out what's in my
> head right now to make sure I actually learnt something the past couple
> months.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert VadeBonCoeur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:12 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: DNS Domain Name
>
>
> Next question - I see in the active directory for user setup it shows the
> user name @ DNS Domain name. What is this used for. Does this happen to
> tie into Exchange in anyway, or is this just the dns domain the user is
> falling into (which would mean that you can manage users for multiple
> sites?)
>
> Curious..
>
> Robert VadeBonCoeur
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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