Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain
From: Paul (country-air_at_news.postalias)
Date: 07/07/04
- Next message: Martin H: "Removing the first DC in the Forest?!"
- Previous message: Mark: "Re: GPMC Error."
- In reply to: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Next in thread: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Reply: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Reply: CJ: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 03:12:31 -0700
Herb - did you have that registry entry, please? Or did
the message from MS scupper it?
Paul
>-----Original Message-----
>"Paul" <country-air@news.postalias> wrote in message
>news:25e6001c4627f$57765d00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> 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
>
>There is a feature/setting in XP that causes it to "latch
onto"
>Win2000+ DCs.
>
>It's a registry entry to put it back -- someone will post
it
>today or tomorrow in this thread, but you can look it up
on
>the MS website through search Google with something like:
>
> [ site:microsoft.com XP 2000 | 2003 DC BDC | PDC
registry]
>
>I don't know if that will get it to the top but it will
likely be in
>there somewhere.
>
>Oh, and it's a "feature" because this lets the news
clients get
>their Group Policy and full AD benefits.
>
>--
>Herb Martin
>
>
>"Paul" <country-air@news.postalias> wrote in message
>news:25e6001c4627f$57765d00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> 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
>
>
>.
>
- Next message: Martin H: "Removing the first DC in the Forest?!"
- Previous message: Mark: "Re: GPMC Error."
- In reply to: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Next in thread: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Reply: Herb Martin: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Reply: CJ: "Re: Fallback to NT4 - Clients won't talk to Domain"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
