Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain
From: CJ (chrisj_at_illicom.net)
Date: 07/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:58:53 GMT
You will have to take the WinXP machines and make them a WORKGROUP member,
reboot, then add them to the domain again. Its a pain, but thats what
solved my problem.
"Paul" <country-air@news.postalias> wrote in message
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> We have been experimenting in the lab with the UPGRADE
> route for converting our NT4 domain to Active Directory.
> One of the reasons we were attracted to this route was the
> claimed ability (in the Migration Cookbook) to fallback to
> the original domain by removing the new W2K DCs and
> replacing with the stored NT4 PDC. This all works OK,
> except...
>
> Any WXP client which has logged in to the new AD doesn't
> want to play with the 'fallen'back' NT4 domain. It says
> that it can't find a [NT4] domain controller. Indeed, the
> client's domain name has 'automatically' changed to the
> name of the AD domain and also the preferred DNS server
> has been altered. The event log says specifically that a
> downgrade is being attempted, and it is necessary for the
> client to rejoin the NT4 domain.
>
> Have we missed something? The Cookbook seems quite
> insistent that you can fall back in this manner! Is there
> an easy way to move all the clients back to the NT4 domain
> without visiting them all?
>
> Incidentally, if we did find a way to rejoin the NT4
> domain for all our clients, then presumably we wouldn't be
> able to re-migrate them to AD without starting from
> scratch, because the upgraded W2K DC would no longer have
> valid machine accounts for the clients (different SIDs)?
>
> Paul
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